GET A LIFE

187pp., hardback, d.w., Cape Town, 2005

After South African ecologist Paul Bannerman is diagnosed with thyroid cancer and prescribed treatment that will leave him radioactive, he begins to question his relationship with his wife, an advertising executive.

Nadine Gordimer's novels include The Lying Days,My Son's Story, Burger's Daughter, July's People, A World of Strangers, The House Gun and None To Accompany Me. Her collections of short stories include Occasion for Loving ,The Soft Voice of the Serpent, Something Out There, Jump, Loot and Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991. She died in 2014.