The Pickup (Record no. 69015)
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| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 0142001422 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Edition number | 23 |
| Classification number | 823.914 GOR |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Gordimer,Nadine |
| 245 #4 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The Pickup |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | / Nadine Gordimer |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | London |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | : Penguin Books |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | ,2001 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 270p. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | When Julie Summers's car breaks down on a sleazy street in a South African city, a young Arab mechanic named Abdu comes to her aid. Their attraction to one another is fueled by different motives. Julie is in rebellion against her wealthy background and her father; Abdu, an illegal immigrant, is desperate to avoid deportation to his impoverished country. In the course of their relationship, there are unpredictable consequences, and overwhelming emotions will overturn each one's notion of the other. Set in the new South Africa and in an Arab village in the desert, The Pickup is "a masterpiece of creative empathy . . . a gripping tale of contemporary anguish and unexpected desire, and it also opens the Arab world to unusually nuanced perception |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | English fiction |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Contemporary Literature |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Literary Fiction |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Prof. Romila Thapar's Collection |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type | Public note |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | Not For Loan | SNU LIBRARY | SNU LIBRARY | 08/06/2026 | 823.914 GOR | G8342 | 08/06/2026 | 08/06/2026 | Prof. Romila Thapar's Collection | Prof. Romila Thapar's Collection |
