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No Cold Kitchen: A Chronicle of Nadine Gordimer - Softcover
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No Cold Kitchen: A Biography of Nadine Gordimer
Description
Eight years in the making, this book charts Nadine Gordimer’s life and work, providing a vibrant portrait of the country in which Gordimer lives, the history she lived through, and the people around her people in South Africa, such as Nelson Mandela, George Bizos, Es’kia Mphahlele, Bram Fischer, Nat Nakasa, Desmond Tutu and Alan Paton; and people abroad, including Susan Sontag, Salman Rushdie, Anthony Sampson, Edward Said, Amos Oz, Harry Levin and New Yorker editor, Katherine White.
Drawing upon unprecedented access to Gordimer and her documents, No Cold Kitchen gives sympathetic but rigorous attention to the full range of Gordimer’s work, teasing out the inevitable contradictions between her public and private voices and granting the reader an intimate insight into what Gordimer underwent and overcame, both during apartheid and afterwards. The author shrewdly chronicles the drive that led Gordimer, who described herself as a “barefoot girl from Springs,” to a Nobel Prize for literature.
Additional information
| Date | 2005 |
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| Publisher | STE Publishers |
| Language | English |
| Date Published | 2005 |
| Specifications | Softcover, 23x15cm, 736pp |
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No Cold Kitchen is a biography of Nadine Gordimer by Ronald S. Roberts (published by STE Publishers). As an activist, Gordimer played a vital role in the struggle against the apartheid. In 1985, Gordimer declared: “I am a partisan of the black liberation struggle.” As a writer, Gordimer is one of the serious novelists in the world. In 1991, Gordimer won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
As Roberts notes, some of the reviewers of Gordimers’ work held her political commitment against her, damning her work with stereotypes of what literature on the left must be like in the reviewers’ minds:
The confusion of the reviewers over A Sport of Nature felt like a plague upon the book. Gordimer assured Robert Silvers that she was not “miffed . . . ” by what she called the “damning-with-faint-praise” review that the novel received in the New York Review of Books. There Diane Johnson said that Gordimer is humourless and that her “early work was reminiscent of old Marxist novels. . . . “
No Cold Kitchen is not merely a chronology of Gordimer’s life but a literary criticism that does justice to her work — a criticism that, unlike unsympathetic reviewers’, uncovers subtle ways in which Gordim