On JM Coetzee
Writers on Writers
$22.51
- Hardcover
96 pages
- Release Date
1 October 2018
Summary
From South Africa to Australia, Dovey draws on family history to explore the Nobel Prize-winning writer’s work, tracing an intellectual heritage that has been passed from mother to daughter.
‘I was born in the year J.M. Coetzee published his third novel, Waiting for the Barbarians. My mother read this dark, disturbing book with its multiple scenes of torture as she breastfed me at night, while my older sister slept and the house was quiet. It was 1980. The apartheid government had dec…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781760640613 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1760640611 |
| Author: | Ceridwen Dovey |
| Publisher: | Black Inc. |
| Imprint: | Black Inc. |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 1 October 2018 |
| Weight: | 208g |
| Dimensions: | 187mm x 121mm x 16mm |
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About The Author
Ceridwen Dovey
Ceridwen Dovey was born in South Africa and grew up between South Africa and Australia. Her debut novel, Blood Kin, was published in fifteen countries and shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Award. Her second book, Only the Animals, won the inaugural 2014 Readings New Australian Writing Award, and her new novel, In the Garden of the Fugitives, was published earlier this year. She writes non-fiction regularly for The New Yorker and The Monthly, and lives in Sydney.
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