The Pickup

Proof copy. 8vo. Pp. [viii], 268, [1]. Pictorial wraps.

Signed by Author to title-page.

A New York Times Notable Book. Winner of the 2002 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Africa. A penetrating study of the love affair between a rich South African woman and the illegal alien she 'picks up' on a whim. Winner of the 1974 Booker Prize for Fiction for The Conservationist and the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature. "Brilliant. Gordimer's stark sentences and emotional depth make most modern fiction seem trivial." –The Times (London).