Summary
Continuing Text’s re-release of J. M. Coetzee’s revered works with stylish new covers, Summertime is a modern classic by the great Nobel Prize winner accompanied by an introduction from literary critic James Ley.
“And he was just a boy, this Mr Coetzee. I was a woman and he was a boy. He was a boy as a priest is always a boy until suddenly one day he is an old man.”
After some time in America, the young unpublished writer John Coetzee returns to suburban Cape Town to live with…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781922330048 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1922330043 |
| Author: | J.M. Coetzee |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Text Publishing Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2020 |
| Weight: | 220g |
| Dimensions: | 26mm x 130mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
‘Not since Disgrace has he written with such urgency and feeling.’
‘Not since Disgrace has he written with such urgency and feeling.’ * New Yorker *
J.M. Coetzee
J. M. Coetzee was the first author to win the Booker Prize twice and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003. His work includes Waiting for the Barbarians, Life and Times of Michael K, The Master of Petersburg, Disgrace, and Diary of a Bad Year. He lives in Adelaide.
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