New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2001. First Edition; First Printing. 1/4 Cloth. 0374232105 . An attractive first edition/first printing in Fine condition in alike dust-jacket; Who picked up whom? Ist the pickup the illegal immigrant desperate to evade deportation to be impoverished desert country? Or is the pickup the powerful businessman's daugher trying to escape a privileged background she despises? ; 8vo; [xii], 270, [6] pages .

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When Julie Summers's car breaks down on a sleazy street in a South African city, a young Arab mechanic named Abdu comes to her aid. Their attraction to one another is fueled by different motives. Julie is in rebellion against her wealthy background and her father; Abdu, an illegal immigrant, is desperate to avoid deportation to his impoverished country. In the course of their relationship, there are unpredictable consequences, and overwhelming emotions will overturn each one's notion of the other. Set in the new South Africa and in an Arab village in the desert, The Pickup is "a masterpiece of creative empathy . . . a gripping tale of contemporary anguish and unexpected desire, and it also opens the Arab world to unusually nuanced perception" (Edward W. Said).

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Bookseller: Books Tell You Why, Inc. (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 29473
Title: The Pickup - 1st Edition/1st Printing
Author: Gordimer, Nadine
Format/Binding: 1/4 Cloth
Book Condition: Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0374232105
ISBN 13: 9780374232108
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 2001
Keywords: Collectible Rare Out-Of-Print

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