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Book Review of Something Out There

Something Out There
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This powerful collection of short stories and aa novella reflects Nadine Gordimer's extraordinary ability to illuminate the connection etween the personal and the political in the divided society of South Africa. With compassion and scrupulous honesty, Gordimer penetrates to the core of the human heart, revealing the subtlest feelings of her characters--black and white, revolutionaries and racists, adulterers, spinsters, and lovers.--back cover