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名称 Get a life
索引号 I478.45/E20143
分类号 I478.45
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作者 Gordimer、 Nadine.、
出版社 New York : Penguin Books, 2006.
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页数 187 p. ; 20 cm.
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注解 Reprint. Originally published: USA : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005. 摘要 But when he's diagnosed with thyroid cancer and prescribed treatment that makes him radioactive and for a period a danger to others, he questions, as Auden wrote, 'What authority gives/ Existence its surprise.' Taken in by his parents, businessman Adrian and successful lawyer Lyndsay, to protect his wife and child from radiation, back in his childhood garden he faces the contradiction between the values of his conservation work and those of his wife, an advertising agency executive. While threats of projects to build a nuclear reactor and drain the country's vital wetlands preoccupy Paul, the strange state of his existence leads his mother to confront her own past. With Paul cured and normality apparently returned, his parents take a holiday in Mexico to fulfil the archaeological vocation his father missed.