Get a Life (novel)

First UK edition
(publ. Bloomsbury)

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 parent's place for some time. This significant change in his life also affects his family.

Works by Nadine Gordimer

Novels	The Lying Days (1953) A World of Strangers (1958) Occasion for Loving (1963) The Late Bourgeois World (1966) A Guest of Honour (1970) The Conservationist (1974) Burger's Daughter (1979) July's People (1981) A Sport of Nature (1987) My Son's Story (1990) None to Accompany Me (1994) The House Gun (1998) The Pickup (2001) Get a Life (2005) No Time Like the Present (2012)

Collections	The Soft Voice of the Serpent (1952) Loot and Other Stories (2003) Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black(2007)

Other work	What Happened to Burger's Daughter or How South African Censorship Works (1980) Telling Tales (2004)

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