Volume 27, Number 16 · October 23, 1980
Perilous Relations
By John Thompson
A Soldier's Embrace
by Nadine Gordimer
Viking, 144 pp., $8.95
On the dust jacket of this book, with what looks like the African veldt in the background, is Nadine Gordimer, sporting a fedora, tiny, delicate as a gazelle. She reminds one of that other teller of African tales, Isak Dinesen, also delicate in appearance—like her half-tame gazelle Lulu described in Out of Africa. In a photograph from The Life and Destiny of Isak Dinesen[*] she poses, in a picture hat, with that gazelle. Gazellelike she was, but a crack shot with a rifle and her Africans gave her the title 'Lioness Blixen.'
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