{"product_id":"9780140084702","title":"A Sport of Nature","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"A moving, powerful book that, in a career rich with distinguished works, could well be considered her masterpiece.\"—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHillela is Nadine Gordimer's \"sport of nature\": a spontaneous mutation, a new type of untainted person, she is seductive and intuitively gifted for life. \u003ci\u003eA Sport of Nature \u003c\/i\u003eis the bold, sweeping story of her rise from obscurity to an unpredictable kind of political power.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbandoned by her mother, Hillela is left to be raised by her two aunts in South Africa. At Olga's she might have acquired a taste for antiques and a style of dress to please a suitable husband. At Pauline's she might have developed a social conscience. But Hillela's betrayal of her position as a surrogate daughter so shocks both families that at seventeen she is cast adrift.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSwiftly and perilously, her life opens out. She lives as a footloose girl among political exiles on a beach in East Africa, drifting between jobs and lovers, and finally becomes the wife of a black revolutionary. Personal tragedy is ultimately the catalyst for her political development, leading her into a heroic role in the overthrow of apartheid.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the largest, most reverberant work of fiction we have had yet from one of the world's master novelists.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47022228504816,"sku":"9780140084702","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780140084702_p0.jpg?v=1763642457","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780140084702","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}