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100			_aGordimer,Nadine
245		4	_aThe Pickup _c/ Nadine Gordimer
260			_aLondon _b: Penguin Books _c,2001
300			_a270p.
520			_aWhen 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			_aEnglish fiction
650			_a Contemporary Literature
650			_aLiterary Fiction
942			_cRBK
999			_c69015 _d69015