Disgrace
A BBC Radio 4 Good Read
$29.88
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
6 April 2000
Summary
After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressure to repent publicly, he resigns and retreats to daughter Lucy’s isolated smallholding.
For a time, his daughter’s influence and the natural rhythms of the farm promise to harmonise his d…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099289524 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099289520 |
| Author: | J.M. Coetzee |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 6 April 2000 |
| Weight: | 164g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 17mm |
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What is remarkable about Coetzee’s vision as a novelist is that it remains intensely human, rooted in common experience and replete with failure, doubt and frustration * Guardian *Exhilarating… One of the best novelists alive * Sunday Times *
About The Author
J.M. Coetzee
J.M. Coetzee’s work includes Waiting For the Barbarians, Life & Times of Michael K, Boyhood, Youth, Disgrace and Diary of a Bad Year. He was the first author to win the Booker Prize twice and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003.
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