Occasion for Loving

First edition. 8vo. 288 pp. Red cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Green and cream-white dust jacket printed in red and white [priced 21/- net to front flap]. Epigraphs by Thomas Mann, Albert Camus, and Boris Pasternak to preliminary page, the latter of whom provides the title itself.

Slightly bumped to upper board edges. Very good indeed in slightly edge-darkened and marked dust jacket, a little faded at the spine.

Gordimer's third novel, in which the complexities of relationships and race in South Africa are explored. Written in the aftermath of the Sharpeville massacre, it marked the author's political awakening and a commensurate shift toward literary radicalism. Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991. "The lyrical analyst of an entire country." –Guardian

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