In a short story, the narrator’s wife gives an old man one of her father’s old suits to console him for being mistakenly given an overly heavy one of these objects. A man in a novel wonders if one of these objects survived a fire in a “third pasture” after visiting an illegal Indian shanty store. In a novel, one of these objects haunts a pig-iron magnate, who is reminded of it when his leg gets stuck in some mud in the river. A poultry boy scrapes together 20 pounds for Lerice’s husband to buy back one of these objects, only for him to be given the wrong one, in the story “Six Feet of the Country.” In a novel that shared the 1974 Booker Prize, the memory of a leftist lover named Antonia and the finding of one of these objects haunts the white South African Mehring. For 10 points, the discovery of what sort of object on a farm opens the plot of Nadine Gordimer’s novel The Conservationist? ■END■
ANSWER: human corpses [or carcasses; or remains; or dead bodies or a dead body; accept cadavers; prompt on humans, people, a person, men, or equivalents; reject “skeletons” or “bones”]
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