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Jump and Other Stories

Author: Nadine Gordimer

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2012-03-15

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1408832631

In this collection of sixteen stories, Gordimer brings unforgettable characters from every corner of society to life: a child refugee fleeing civil war in Mozambique; a black activist's deserted wife longing for better times; a rich safari party indulging themselves while lionesses circle their lodge. Jump is a vivid, disturbing and rewarding portrait of life in South Africa under apartheid.

The Big Jump and Other Stories

Author: Benjamin Elkin

Publisher:

Published: 1961

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 9780001711044

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Three short stories, with limited vocabulary and told in folk-tale style. Only the King could have a dog for a pet, but Ben and the pup change that rule.

Telling Times

Author: Nadine Gordimer

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2012-03-15

Total Pages: 754

ISBN-13: 140883295X

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Nadine Gordimer's life reflects the true spirit of the writer as moral activist, political visionary and literary icon. Telling Times collects together all her non-fiction for the first time, spanning more than half a century, from the twilight of colonial rule in South Africa, to the long, brutal fight to overthrow South Africa's apartheid regime and to her leadership role over the last 20 years in confronting the dangers of AIDS, globalisation, and ethnic violence. The range of this book is staggering, from Gordimer's first piece in The New Yorker in 1954, in which she autobiographically traces her emergence as a brilliant, young writer in a racist country, to her pioneering role in recognising the greatest African and European writers of her generation, to her truly, courageous stance in supporting Nelson Mandela and other members of the ANC during their years of imprisonment. Given that Gordimer will never write an autobiography, Telling Times is an important document of twentieth-century social and political history, told through the voice of one of its greatest literary figures.

Life Times

Author: Nadine Gordimer

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2011-11-07

Total Pages: 561

ISBN-13: 0747596182

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Throughout her career the internationally renowned South African writer Nadine Gordimer has built a literary reputation with her incisive short stories as much as with her acclaimed novels. Together with her essays, this highly imaginative and committed body of work won her the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991. In the opinion of the Academy: 'Through her magnificent epic writing she has - in the words of Alfred Nobel - been of very great benefit to humanity.' Gordimer has said that while novelists take the reader by the hand developing 'a consistency of relationship that does not and cannot convey the quality of human life, where contact is more like the flash of fireflies, in and out, now here, now there, in darkness. Short-story writers see by the light of the flash; theirs is the only thing one can be sure of - the present moment.' Now, for the first time, the best of her stories are published in one volume.

Custer's Last Jump and Other Collaborations

Author: Howard Waldrop

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13:

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Presents a collection of collaborative short stories between Howard Waldrop and such authors as Leigh Kennedy, Steven Ultey, and Buddy Saunders.

Breeder and Other Stories

Author: Eugenia W. Collier

Publisher: Black Classic Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780933121799

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In Breeder, author Eugenia Collier disturbs the peace. Unsettling tales steeped in the African American oral tradition recall a shameful past and foreshadow an uncertain future. A master storyteller, Collier changes voices with the ease of a chameleon, spanning broad emotional spectrum from dark moods to bright moments. Included in this collected is the ever-popular short-story, Marigolds.

July's People

Author: Nadine Gordimer

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2012-03-15

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 1408832968

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For years, it has been what is called a 'deteriorating situation'. Now all over South Africa the cities are battlegrounds. The members of the Smales family - liberal whites - are rescued from the terror by their servant, July, who leads them to refuge in his native village. What happens to the Smaleses and to July - the shifts in character and relationships - gives us an unforgettable look into the terrifying, tacit understandings and misunderstandings between blacks and whites.

Why Haven't You Written?

Author: Nadine Gordimer

Publisher: Penguin Mass Market

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13:

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A collection of short stories by the Nobel Prize-winning author of My Son's Story and Jump and Other Stories features tales of human separation and entanglement and of love and freedom.

Homeland

Author: Barbara Kingsolver

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2009-03-17

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 0061865931

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“Extraordinarily fine. Kingsolver has a Chekhovian tenderness toward her characters. . . . The title story is pure poetry.” —Russell Banks, New York Times Book Review With the same wit and sensitivity that have come to characterize her highly praised and beloved novels, acclaimed author Barbara Kingsolver gives us a rich and emotionally resonant collection of twelve stories. Spreading her memorable characters over landscapes ranging from Northern California to the hills of eastern Kentucky and the Caribbean island of St. Lucia, Kingsolver tells stories of hope, momentary joy, and powerful endurance. In every setting, Kingsolver's distinctive voice— at times comic, but often heartrending—rings true as she explores the twin themes of family ties and the life choices one must ultimately make alone. Homeland and Other Stories creates a world of love and possibility that readers will want to take as their own.

Jump And Other Stories

Author: Nadine Gordimer

Publisher: Turtleback Books

Published: 1992-10-01

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781417636259

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The Nobel Prize-winning author treats the dynamics of family life, international terrorism, and racial tension in her native South Africa and elsewhere with characteristic moral and emotional force and striking detail in sixteen new stories.