Volume 34, Number 12 · July 16, 1987
Living Legends
By Diane Johnson
A Sport of Nature
by Nadine Gordimer
Knopf, 341 pp., $18.95
One comes to Nadine Gordimer's new novel, A Sport of Nature, conscious of a certain critical division about it. On the one hand it is called by Maureen Howard in The New York Times Book Review 'the perfect equation' between talent and experience, a grand act of the imagination. On the other hand, to Jennifer Krauss in The New Republic it is a 'deeply cynical novel' in the realm of 'popular, blockbuster, Book-of-the-Month Club fiction,' and to Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times a 'glib encapsulation of recent history' whose form has something in common with Judith Krantz or Sidney Sheldon. Indeed the tone of the novel is elusive, the narrative method susceptible to either interpretation.
Review, 2395 words
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