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Boyhood by J. M. Coetzee
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Category: Fiction
It is up to him to somehow get beyond childhood, beyond family and school, to a new life where he will not need to pretend any more.A young John Coetzee struggles to exert his autonomy in this perceptive evocation of his early years in the deeply divided South Africa of the 1940s. Coetzee reflects on hi ...Show more
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
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Category: Fiction
J. M. Coetzee's Booker Prize-winning novel Disgrace, set in post-apartheid South Africa, takes us into the disquieting mind of twice-divorced university teacher David Lurie as he loses his job and his honour after engaging in an ill-advised affair with a susceptible student. When he retreats to his dau ...Show more
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
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Category: Fiction
"INCLUDES A READING GUIDE 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 refu ...Show more
Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000 - 2005 by J. M. Coetzee
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Category: Essays
Inner Workings is the second of three collections of literary criticism by J. M. Coetzee, including essays on Musil and Beckett, Bellow and Gordimer. These are concise, accessible introductions to some of the world's greatest writers, by a contemporary master.
Late Essays: 2006-2017 by J. M. Coetzee
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Category: Essays
Late Essays is the last of three collections of literary criticism by J. M. Coetzee to be republished by Text. It includes essays on Flaubert and Goethe, Patrick White and Gerald Murnane. These are concise, accessible introductions to some of the world's greatest writers, by a contemporary master.
Slow Man by J. M. Coetzee; M. J. Hyland (Introduction by)
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Category: Fiction
If none is left who will pronounce judgment on such a life, if the Great Judge of All has given up judging and withdrawn to pare his nails, then he will pronounce it himself: a wasted chance. When a bicycle accident causes photographer Paul Rayment to lose a leg, he must reexamine his life so far, and ...Show more
Stranger Shores: Essays 1986 - 1999 by J. M. Coetzee
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Category: Essays
Stranger Shores is the first of three collections of literary criticism by J. M. Coetzee to be republished by Text. It includes essays on Dostoevsky and Kafka, A. S. Byatt and Doris Lessing. These are concise, accessible introductions to some of the world's greatest writers, by a contemporary master. ...Show more
Summertime by J. M. Coetzee
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Category: Fiction
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 his ailing father. His biographer ch ...Show more
The Childhood of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee
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Category: Fiction
The child is silent. For a while he too is silent. Then he speaks. 'Please believe me—please take it on faith—this is not a simple matter. The boy is without mother. What that means I cannot explain to you because I cannot explain it to myself. Yet I promise you, if you will simply say Yes, without fore ...Show more
The Death of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee
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Category: Fiction | Series: #3
After The Childhood of Jesus and The Schooldays of Jesus, J. M. Coetzee completes his trilogy with a new masterwork, The Death of Jesus. David has grown to be a tall ten-year-old. He is a natural at soccer, and loves kicking a ball around with his friends. His father Sim n and Bolivar the dog usually wa ...Show more
The Death of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee
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Category: Fiction
The luminous new novel from 'one of the best writers of our time', twice winner of the Booker Prize'The Death of Jesus is full of truth' -- David Sexton, Book of the Week, Evening StandardIn The Childhood of Jesus, Simòn found a boy, David, and they began life in a new land, together with a woman named ...Show more
The Pole and Other Stories by J. M. Coetzee
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Category: Fiction
Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee reaffirms his place as one of the English language's most acclaimed authors with this fascinating examination of life, death and animals. These six stories by Nobel-Prize-winning J. M. Coetzee remind us that he is a writer whose language explores moral and emotional quandar ...Show more