Life Times: Stories 1952-2007 by Nadine Gordimer – review
Nadine Gordimer's short stories show her focused anger at the
inequities of life in South Africa to full effect   • The
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Gordimer: 'Careful scrutiny is a constant in her writing.'
Photograph: Martin Argles for the Guardian  This collection of
Nadine Gordimer's short stories, which was released along with a
companion volume of her essays called Telling Times, spans six
decades. Gordimer's particular powers of observation are there
from the beginning. The first story, "The Soft Voice of the
Serpent", written in 1952, features a young man who is
recuperating after the loss of a leg. While resting in the
garden he becomes briefly fixated with a locust that has been
swatted by his wife and similarly injured. This level of careful
scrutiny, this steady, detailed gaze, has been a constant in her
writing throughout the years.    1. Life Times: Stories
1952-2007   2. by Nadine Gordimer  Many of the storie