The Conservationist

The Conservationist

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name = The Conservationist
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image_caption = First US edition
author = Nadine Gordimer
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country = South Africa
language = English
series =
genre = Novel
publisher = Jonathan Cape
release_date = 1974
english_release_date =
media_type = Print (Hardback & Paperback)
pages = 252 pp (first edition, hardback)
isbn = ISBN 0224010352 (first edition, hardback)
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"The Conservationist" is a 1974 novel by 1991 Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer. The book was a joint winner of the Man Booker Prize for fiction.


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