Volume 31, Number 13 · August 16, 1984
Somebody Out There
By Elizabeth Hardwick
Something Out There
by Nadine Gordimer
Viking, 203 pp., $15.95
'Something Out There' is the title story of Nadine Gordimer's new collection. Eighty-five pages of fictional mastery. Those who know this unsurpassed talent might say, once more, and not surprising. Note the way the author opens the plot, arranges the magical correspondences, finds the fixed points, and sets them in a broad open space where many drifting, always to the point, things can wander. Wander, turn up, just be there, and to the point, revealing but sideways—a certain speed and then off.
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