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Disgrace by J M Coetzee
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Category: Literature
"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
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
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Category: Literature
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
Here and Now by Paul Auster, J M Coetzee
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Category: Reference Literature
Here and Now is a collection of letters between Paul Auster and Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee, two of the greatest writers of our time. Although Paul Auster and J. M. Coetzee had been reading each other's books for years, the two writers did not meet until February 2008. Not long after, Auster received a ...Show more
Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000 - 2005 by J. M. Coetzee
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Category: Reference Literature
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: Reference
Crossing J.M. Coetzee's range of well-known writerly interests, including Beckett, with essays on Australian writers including Gerald Murnane, Patrick White and Les Murray. The subjects covered range from Daniel Defoe in the early eighteenth century to Coetzee's contemporary Philip Roth. Coetzee has had ...Show more
Late Essays - 2006-2017 by J. M. Coetzee
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Category: Reference Essays
A new collection of twenty-three literary essays from the Nobel Prize-winning author. J. M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. J. M. Coetzee is not only one of the most acclaimed fiction writers in the world, he is also an accomplished and insightful literary ...Show more
Late Essays: 2006-2017 by J. M. Coetzee
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Category: Reference Literature
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.
Life and Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee
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Category: Literature
There was a cord of tenderness that stretched from him to the patch of earth beside that dam and must be cut. It seemed to him that one could cut a cord like that only so many times before it would not grow again. Michael K is returning his elderly mother to her rural birthplace when she dies, leaving ...Show more
Stranger Shores: Essays 1986 - 1999 by J. M. Coetzee
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Category: Reference Literature
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
The Childhood of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee
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Category: General
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: Literature | 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: Literature
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