title: Selected Stories
author: Nadine Gordimer
description: Selected Stories by Nadine Gordimer. Penguin Books, Inc.,1975
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  PRAISE FOR NADINE GORDIMER 
   
  “If asked to name a living writer who exemplifies all that  
  a writer can be, I would think immediately of Nadine  
  Gordimer … She has articulated an admirably complex view of 
  the human heart and the contradictions inherent in living  
  in literature and in history.”  
  —Susan Sontag 
   
  “[Nadine Gordimer’s Selected Stories is] a magnificent 
  collection worthy of all homage.”  
  —Graham Greene 
   
  “[Gordimer] just seems to get better and better with age, 
  producing work that is more profound, more searching,  
  more accomplished than what she was writing earlier in  
  her long and distinguished career.”  
  —Martin Rubin, Los Angeles Times Book Review 
   
  “Gutsily modern … Gordimer is one of the greats.”  
  —The Mail on Sunday (London) 
   
  “Nadine Gordimers work is endowed with an emotional 
  genius so palpable one experiences it like a finger pressing 
  steadily upon the prose.” 
  —The Village Voice 
  
   
   
   
   
   
  PENGUIN CANADA 
   
  BEETHOVEN WAS ONE-SIXTEENTH BL