July’s People (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Nadine Gordimer
- First Published: 1981
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: Soon after 1980
- Setting: A small settlement in rural South Africa
- Principal Characters: Maureen Smales, Bamford “Bam” Smales, July
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: Family or family life, Politics, Blacks, Race, Revolutions, Future, Yards or backyards, 1980’s, Violence, South Africa or South Africans, Architecture or architects
- Locales: South Africa
The Story:
July, incongruously both servant and host, brought morning tea to Maureen and Bamford Smales where they were sleeping with their three children in a one-room mud hut with only a piece of sack cloth for a door. A small truck, bought for hunting holidays for Bam’s fortieth birthday, had brought the Smales family six hundred kilometers across the veld in a journey that took three days and nights. The revolutionary forces trying to wrest power from the whites in South Africa had caused the family to flee Johanesburg with their servant July to his rural settlement,...
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