Jessie and Tom Stilwell keep open house. Their code is one of people determined to maintain the integrity of personal relations against the distortions of law and society. The impact on their home of Boaz Davis and his wife Ann, arrived from England, and Gideon Shibalo, the Stilwells' black friend, with whom Ann starts a love affair as her adventure with Africa, is dramatically concurrent with events involving Jessie's strange relationship with her mother and stepfather and her son from a previous marriage. Telling their ...
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Jessie and Tom Stilwell keep open house. Their code is one of people determined to maintain the integrity of personal relations against the distortions of law and society. The impact on their home of Boaz Davis and his wife Ann, arrived from England, and Gideon Shibalo, the Stilwells' black friend, with whom Ann starts a love affair as her adventure with Africa, is dramatically concurrent with events involving Jessie's strange relationship with her mother and stepfather and her son from a previous marriage. Telling their story against the background of South Africa in the sixties, Nadine Gordimer speaks with unsurpassed subtlety and poignancy of individuals and the society in which they live.
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Add this copy of An Occasion for Loving to cart. $11.44, very good condition, Sold by David Segal rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Brooklyn, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1963 by Viking Books.
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Very good in poor dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. Audience: General/trade. 1963 Viking Press 1st US edition. A LOT of soil, edgewear (front flap is fully separated and has been retaped, as have some other tears) and soil on dj, folds on flaps. Book itself is VG-, with soil/sunning on cover, light tanning, one small corner fold, soil on edge, else text clean, binding tight.
Add this copy of An Occasion for Loving Gordimer, Nadine to cart. $25.00, very good condition, Sold by Twice Sold Tales rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Ashfield, MA, UNITED STATES, published 1963 by Viking Adult.
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Very Good. 1963 Viking hard cover-1st edition-very nice-slight tanning to page edge-otherwise a very clean solid tight copy-dust jacket very nice-nice copy.
Add this copy of Occasion for Loving to cart. $39.00, fair condition, Sold by Chapter 1 Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Johannesburg, SOUTH AFRICA, published 1963 by Victor Gollancz.
Add this copy of Occasion for Loving to cart. $40.00, very good condition, Sold by Chapter 1 Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Johannesburg, SOUTH AFRICA, published 1963 by Gollancz.
Add this copy of Occasion for Loving to cart. $40.00, fair condition, Sold by Chapter 1 Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Johannesburg, SOUTH AFRICA, published 1963 by Victor Gollancz LTD.
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Fair. No Jacket. 288 pages. Boards shelf rubbed and marked. Closed tear on the last page, old tape residue marks, back end page missing, tanning. However, it is still in fair condition, tightly bound and intact. 1st edition. MN.
Add this copy of An Occasion for Loving to cart. $66.16, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1963 by Viking Adult.
