<DIV>"Ms. Gordimer's South Africa is conveyed in passages of relentless sensual and emotional fidelity. Moments matter, deserve the painstaking eye for detail, the moral intelligence she devotes to rendering them, her determination to make each sentence count and her characters accountable...She is a master of realistic narrative...The tales in <I>Jump</I> are not committed to specific ideology but to the grand task of spiritual examination and social redemption." —<I>The New York Times</I></DIV><P>"Fascinating...It's as if the mirror that Gordimer holds up to South Africa has exploded, leaving a scatter of fragments that we perceive haphazardly, as a strong searchlight moves over the pieces, illuminating first one, then another."—<I>USA Today</I></P><P>"Cunningly designed...Her themes range far beyond apartheid, her characters -- whether black or white -- are delegates representing the vast human comedy and tragedy, and her lapidary language is elegant." —<I>The New York Times Book Review</I></P><P>"Gordimer's talent is poetic and intellectual...Her best writing, sensuous, but aerated with deep intelligence, moving shrewdly between the serene claims of the poetic and the frantic compulsions of the political, makes her the lyrical analyst of an entire country." —James Wood, <I>The Guardian </I>(London)</P>