Books: Current & Various: may 7, 1965

NOT FOR PUBLICATION AND OTHER STORIES by Nadine Gordimer. 248 pages. Viking. $4.95. South Africa is a land where blacks live in a limbo constructed by whites. In earlier novels and stories, Nadine Gordimer has coldly exposed the tensions of life along that hypocritical boundary. Her home country remains the setting for most of these 16 new stories, but the setting has become incidental; the characters are caught in emotional suspensions that have no geographical limits. Gradwell, in The Pet, hates the bulldog kept by his white employers: "Symbol of all the white...

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