It ends with Maureen abandoning her family to run toward a helicopter.
The epigraph to this work, which describes "morbid systems" arising from the interregnum between old and new, is by Antonio Gramsci. One of this novel's characters sees a picture of herself in a Life coffee-table book, causing her to wonder why Lydia was carrying her books, and that character's husband later builds a water tank and shoots some boars. Its title character takes the keys to a "bakkie", after which he learns to drive from Daniel, who later steals Bamford's gun. It ends with Maureen abandoning her family to run toward a helicopter. For 10 points, name this novel whose title character is the servant of the Smales family, a work of Nadine Gordimer.
The epigraph to this work, which describes "morbid systems" arising from the interregnum between old and new, is by Antonio Gramsci.
{July's People}