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The pickupNadine Gordimer

The pickup

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"Who picked up whom? Is the pickup the illegal immigrant desperate to evade deportation to his impoverished desert country? Or is the pickup the powerful businessman's daughter trying to escape a privileged background she despises?" "When Julie Summers' car breaks down in a sleazy street, at a garage a young Arab emerges from beneath the chassis of a vehicle to aid her. The consequences develop unpredictable, relentless emotions that overturn each one's notions of the other.". "What are the solutions life demands for extraordinary circumstances? The Pickup is set in the social mix of the new…

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5 editions
  • Other · English · 2002
    Thorndike Press · 391 pages · 9780786238484
  • Other · English · 2002
    Penguin Books · 270 pages · 9780142001424
  • Other · English · 2001
    Viking · 270 pages · 9780670043002
  • Other · English · 2001
    Bloomsbury · 270 pages · 9780747554271
  • Other · English · 2001
    Farrar, Straus, and Giroux · 270 pages · 9780374232108
ArabsMarried peopleEthnic relationsFictionIllegal aliensChildren of the richWomenMarried people, fiction