Get a Life
Get a Life (2005) by Nadine Gordimer Get a Life is a 2005 novel by the South African writer Nadine Gordimer. The novel tells the story of environmental activist Paul Bannerman and his family. Paul is diagnosed with thyroid cancer and, after surgery and subsequent radiation treatment, has to live quarantined at his parents' place for some time. This significant change in his life also affects his family. The novel received mixed reviews by critics, and departs from other novels by Gordimer as it does not directly deal with Apartheid, instead focusing on the struggle of a single individual
Quotes
edit- The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
- Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
- That's it on the maps; nature doesn't acknowledge frontiers. Neither can ecology... Where to begin to understand what we've only got a computerspeak label for, ecosystem? Where to decide it begins.
