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Disgrace
J. M. Coetzee
In South Africa after apartheid, a middle-aged professor of Romantic poetry sees his career crumble as the world turns more to technology than to literature. After a series of ever...... read more
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Diary of a Bad Year
J. M. Coetzee
Nobel Prize Winner J.M. Coetzee uses a formal device to explore the intersection between the essay and novel form. Each page of DIARY OF A BAD YEAR begins with a scrap of essay, is...... read more
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Youth
J. M. Coetzee
From the acclaimed South African writer, this autobiographic- al account explores Coetzee's youth as a boy who longs only to escape his homeland. When he finally does get away, however,...... read more
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Slow Man
J. M. Coetzee
In J.M. Coetzee's eighth novel, Paul Rayment is a photographer whose life seems to be taking several turns for the worse: at 60 years old, he's alone in the world, and he has just...... read more
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Elizabeth Costello
J. M. Coetzee
The writer Elizabeth Costello was a character in Coetzee's 1999 novel THE LIVES OF ANIMALS. In this novel, the eponymous Elizabeth, now aging, gives lectures, writes about other people's...... read more
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Foe
J. M. Coetzee
Daniel Foe, a famous writer, is the confidant of a castaway named Susan Barton who, when she was rescued from a remote island by a passing ship, was accompanied by Robinson Crusoe's...... read more
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Age of Iron
J. M. Coetzee
A dying old woman in Cape Town, South Africa, narrates this book in the form of a letter to her daughter in America. As she dies, she bears witness to the brutal excesses of apartheid:...... read more
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The Master of Petersburg
J. M. Coetzee
When his stepson dies in St. Petersburg, Fyodor Dostoevsky abandons his life in Germany to investigate the cause of death - - suicide or murder. At the same time, while he seeks to...... read more
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Dusklands
J. M. Coetzee
Two stories deal with an investigation into psychological warfare in Vietnam and an eighteenth-century conflict between Dutch settlers in southern Africa and the native Hottentots. read more
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The Lives of Animals
J. M. Coetzee
These angry lectures about the ethics of the human-animal relationship were given at Princeton, ostensibly by a novelist named Elizabeth Costello; this volume also includes commentary...... read more
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Stranger Shores
J. M. Coetzee
Coetzee's book of essays, covering the end of the 20th century, includes his thoughts on writers such as Defoe, Turgenev, Kafka, Borges, Rushdie, Gordimer, Lessing, and Mahfouz, as...... read more
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