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The Pickup: A Novel
by Gordimer, Nadine
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- first
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- ISBN 10
- 1250024048
- ISBN 13
- 9781250024046
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Synopsis
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 Pickup is "a masterpiece of creative empathy . . . a gripping tale of contemporary anguish and unexpected desire, and it also opens the Arab world to unusually nuanced perception" (Edward W. Said).
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- Title
- The Pickup: A Novel
- Author
- Gordimer, Nadine
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1250024048
- ISBN 13
- 9781250024046
- Publisher
- Picador
- This edition first published
- 2013-02
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