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010 _a53010813
020 _a9780140233674
024 _a30491951
050 _aPR9369.3.G6
082 _a823
100 1 _aNadine Gordimer
245 1 _aThe Lying Days
260 _bPenguin Books
300 _a384 pages
520 _aNadine Gordimer's first novel, published in 1953, tells the story of Helen Shaw, daughter of white middle-class parents in a small gold-mining town in South Africa. As Helen comes of age, so does her awareness grow of the African life around her. Her involvement, as a bohemian student, with young blacks leads her into complex relationships of emotion and action in a culture of dissension.
650 _aHistorical Fiction
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