The Late Bourgeois World
A woman learns at breakfast that her former husband, a white saboteur who broke under interrogation and gave evidence for the state, has driven into the sea. The day that follows takes her to her son's boarding school, to her senile grandmother's home and at last to a request from a friend in the movement she cannot answer lightly. Gordimer's most compressed account of what political failure costs those left holding it; banned for a decade.
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