The Conservationist

by Nadine Gordimer Narrated by Wanda McCaddon

Overview

Mehring, a rich, powerful and vital industrialist, has all the privileges and possessions that South Africa has to offer. But his possessions refuse to remain objects: his wife, son, and mistress leave him; his foreman and workers become increasingly indifferent to his stewardship; and even the land rises up, as drought, then flood, destroy his farm.

Nadine Gordimer, winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature, paints a fascinating portrait of a man both reckless and calculating, a "conservationist" left only with the possibility of self-preservation, in this subtle and detailed study of the forces and relationships that seethed in South Africa.

Editorial Reviews

AudioFile

[Wanda McCaddon] skillfully adapt[s] her mild British accent to the dialects of the various social classes…This presentation certainly seems true to Gordimer’s vision.”

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Gordimer has written what must be considered her masterpiece. The beauty and largeness of this land she loves is drawn with a breadth and scope that is breathtaking.”

New Statesman

This is a novel of enormous power.”

From the Publisher

"This is a novel of enormous power' New Statesman 'Gordimer is a great writer ... It is Turgenev that she most brings to mind' — New York Review of Books

"A triumph of stle … It is not often that lyrical intelligence and political pupose are combined in so effective ways." -- Paul Theroux

"Gordimer has written what must be considered her masterpiece. The beauty and largeness of this land she loves is drawn with a breadth and scope that is breathtaking."—St. Louis Post-Dispatch"This is a novel of enormous power."—The New Statesman

'Nadine Gordimer writes of blacks and whites, but her steady, unblinking eye sees something grey there. You could call it human nature, and you would be right' --Daily Telegraph (London)

'Gordimer has undoubtedly become one of the World's Great Writers ... her rootedness in a political time, place and faith has never dimmed her complex gifts as an artist' —  Independent (London)

Product Details

BN ID:	2940169909876
Publisher:	Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Publication date:	08/23/2010
Edition description:	Unabridged

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