Age of Iron Condition:Well Read " and society's materialism comes

" and society's materialism comes under sharp

In the second half of the book

Each scene has chunky push

Americans and Iranians

each note signed 'PS

Age of Iron Condition:Well Read " and society's materialism comesIn Cape Town, South Africa, an old woman is dying of cancer. A classics professor, Mrs. Curren has been opposed to the lies and brutality of apartheid all her life, but has lived insulated from its true horrors. Now she is suddenly forced to come to terms with the iron hearted rage that the system has wrought. In an extended letter addressed to her daughter, who has long since fled to America, Mrs. Curren recounts the strange events of her dying days.