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The Pickup by Lisette Lecat, Nadine Gordimer (2002, Unabridged, Audio Cassette) 
The Pickup by Lisette Lecat, Nadine Gordimer (2002, Unabridged, Audio Cassette)
Author: Lisette Lecat, Nadine Gordimer
Publisher: Recorded Books
Publication Date: 2002-11-01
Language: English
Format: Audio
ISBN-10: 1841973335
ISBN-13: 9781841973333
Product ID: EPID2459438
Description: A young woman trying to escape her upper-class but stifling life gets involved with the garage mechanic who fixes her car, an Arab who is also an illegal immigrant. The question becomes: who is using whom? Or is this a love story in whic...
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Synopsis
A young woman trying to escape her upper-class but stifling life gets involved with the garage mechanic who fixes her car, an Arab who is also an illegal immigrant. The question becomes: who is using whom? Or is this a love story in which no one is using anyone? THE PICKUP was shortlisted for the 2001 Booker Prize and was New York Times Notable Book for 2002.

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Publication Date:2002-11-01
Edition Description:Unabridged

Industry Reviews
"As ever, the detail of Gordimer's narrative is potent, whether of place, people or conversation....Since her first novel..., Gordimer has been lauded for exposing the iniquities of apartheid and political oppression. The praise is just, but it warps the texture of her work and omits the subtlety which makes her book so compelling. The political situation is integral to most of her novels but not the only factor in the fate of her characters."
Times Literary Supplement - Sarah Curtis (08/31/2001)

"Gordimer plays the lovers off one another expertly...and she explores the problems of dispossession with characteristic subtlety."
New Yorker (09/10/2001)

"fortunately Ms. Gordimer's ability...to delineate the psychological consequences of exile, class disaffection and racial prejudice enables her to lend Julie and Ibrahim's relationship and unusual poignancy and depth....We are made to see, in this affecting if often clumsy novel, how these two lovers' respective dreams of escape draw them together and how they also create a wedge against their future."
New York Times - Michiko Kakutani (10/09/2001)

"It's extremely hard to write beautifully about the power of sex, of its capacity to elevate humans out of worlds that would divide them, of its occasionally transcendent quality. But Gordimer writes about it so easily we barely notice the accomplishment."
New York Times Book Review - Andrew Sullivan (12/16/2001)

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