The Conservationist

The Conservationist
First US edition cover
AuthorNadine Gordimer
LanguageEnglish
PublisherJonathan Cape (UK)
Viking Press (US)
Publication date
1974
Publication placeSouth Africa
Media typePrint (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages252 pp (first edition, hardback)
ISBN0-224-01035-2 (first edition, hardback)
OCLC3103361
823
LC ClassPZ4.G66 Co PR9369.3.G6

The Conservationist is a 1974 novel by the South African writer Nadine Gordimer. The book was a joint winner of the Booker-McConnell Prize for fiction.[1] It is described as more complex in design and technique than Gordimer's earlier novels.[2]

  1. ^ "The Booker Prize 1974". The Man Booker Prizes. Retrieved 25 May 2013.
  2. ^ Otero, Rosalie (January 1993). "Nadine Gordimer's the Conservationist". The Explicator. 51 (2): 116–117. doi:10.1080/00144940.1993.9937992.