In the Heart of the Country Government & Political Science (1991) NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER •

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The guardian of all style” ( The New York Times Magazine ) shares stories on life

return to his native Vietnam

The twelve men and women profiled are pacesetters in industries as diverse as retailing

from Maine to California

In the Heart of the Country Government & Political Science (1991) NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER •On a remote farm in South Africa, the protagonist of J. M. Coetzee's fierce and passionate novel watches the life from which she has been excluded. Ignored by her callous father, scorned and feared by his servants, she is a bitterly intelligent woman whose outward meekness disguises a desperate resolve not to become "one of the forgotten ones of history." When her father takes an African mistress, that resolve precipitates an act of vengeance that