Book description
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When Paul Bannerman, an ecologist in Africa, is diagnosed with cancer
and prescribed treatment that makes him radioactive, his suddenly
fragile existence makes him question his life for the first time. He
is especially struck by the contradiction in values between his work
as a conservationist and that of his wife, an advertising agency
executive. Then when Paul moves in with his parents to protect his
wife and young son from radiation, the strange nature of his condition
leads his mother to face her own past.<
'Absorbing and impressive ... a beautifully written
meditation on marriage and solitude' Daily Mail 'Get a Life is about
all of our fears: of destruction, but also of contamination,
alienation and enforced solitude ... A brave story about the
fragility and the dangers of intimacy' Daily Telegraph '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 'Gordimer's stark sentences
and emotional depth make most modern fiction seem trivial' The Times
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When Paul Bannerman, an ecologist in Africa, is diagnosed with cancer
and prescribed treatment that makes him radioactive, his suddenly
fragile existence makes him question his life for the first time. He
is especially struck by the contradiction in values between his work
as a conservationist and that of his wife, an advertising agency
executive. Then when Paul moves in with his parents to protect his
wife and young son from radiation, the strange nature of his condition
leads his mother to face her own past.<
