Pickup

Name: Pickup
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ISBN: 9780142001424

ISBN-10: 0142001422

ISBN-13: 9780142001424

Edition: 2002

Authors: Nadine Gordimer

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When Julie Summers's car breaks down on a sleazy street in a South African city, a young Arab mechanic named Abdu comes to her aid. Their attraction to one another is fueled by different motives. Julie is in rebellion against her wealthy background and her father; Abdu, an illegal immigrant, is desperate to avoid deportation to his impoverished country. In the course of their relationship, there are unpredictable consequences, and overwhelming emotions will overturn each one's notion of the other. Set in the new South Africa and in an Arab village in the desert, The Pickupis "a masterpiece of creative empathy . . . a gripping tale of contemporary anguish and unexpected desire, and it also…

Book details

List price: $15.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Publication date: 9/24/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

Nadine Gordimer was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991. She lives in Johannesburg, South Africa.