This work's protagonist has trouble understanding his gay son Terry, whose fashion sweaters he gives to his employees, including Jacobus.
Quotes from a work of Henry Callaway are placed between the chapters in this novel. The protagonist puzzles over the placement of some chestnut trees and takes a redeye flight on which he sexually assaults a passive Portuguese girl. This work's protagonist has trouble understanding his gay son Terry, whose fashion sweaters he gives to his employees, including Jacobus. The title character discusses the poet Roy Campbell with his lover, Antonia, who leaves the country after being detained by the police. A flood disinters the body of a "city slicker" buried on the farm by police, terrifying the protagonist, the industrialist Mehring. FTP, name this Booker Prize-winning novel by Nadine Gordimer whose title refers to a person who really likes the environment.
Quotes from a work of Henry Callaway are placed between the chapters in this novel.
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