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Paperback Books by J. M. Coetzee
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| Diary of a Bad Year |
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| by J. M. Coetzee |
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An ingenious new work of fiction from the Nobel Prize– winning author of Disgrace
J . M. Coetzee once again breaks literary ground with Diary of a Bad Year, a book that is, in the words of its protagonist, “a... Read More |
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| Publication Date: October 2008 |
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| Slow Man |
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| by J. M. Coetzee |
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| Rendered dependent on others after losing his leg in a bicycle accident, sixty-year-old photographer Paul Rayment finds himself falling in love with a down-to-earth Croatian nurse and encouraged by a mysterious writer to take an activist role... Read More |
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| Publication Date: September 2006 |
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| Disgrace (Essential Editions) |
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| by J. M. Coetzee |
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From the author of Waiting for the Barbarians and the Booker-Prize-winning Life & Times of Michael K, a dazzling new novel--his first in five years
Disgrace--set in post-apartheid Cape Town and on a remote farm in... Read More |
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| Publication Date: September 2005 |
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| Elizabeth Costello |
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| by J. M. Coetzee |
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| 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 books, and participates in a variety of literary and... Read More |
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| Publication Date: October 2004 |
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| Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II |
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| by J. M. Coetzee |
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| From the acclaimed South African writer, this autobiographical account explores Coetzee's youth as a boy who longs only to escape his homeland. When he finally does get away, however, and is living in London as a lonely computer... Read More |
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| Publication Date: November 2003 |
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| Stranger Shores: Literary Essays |
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| by J. M. Coetzee |
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| An extraordinary anthology of literary essays by the Booker Prize-winning author of In the Heart of the Country presents twenty-six pieces on books and writing, including 'What is a Classic?' and studies of Daniel Defoe, Ivan Turgenev, Kafka,... Read More |
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| Publication Date: September 2002 |
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| Publication Date: April 2001 |
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| Disgrace |
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| by J. M. Coetzee |
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| David Lurie is hardly the hero of his own life, or anyone else's. At 52, the protagonist of Disgrace is at the end of his professional and romantic game, and seems to be deliberately courting disaster. Long a professor of modern... Read More |
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| Publication Date: November 2000 |
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| Age of Iron |
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| by J. M. Coetzee |
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| South African professor Mrs. Curren has always been opposed to apartheid's brutality though she has lived isolated from its horrors, but as she nears death from cancer, she confronts a generation of blood and revenge. |
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| Publication Date: September 1998 |
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| Boyhood: Scenes From Provincial Life |
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| by J. M. Coetzee |
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| Coetzee grew up in a new development north of Cape Town, tormented by guilt and fear. With a father he despised, and a mother he both adored and resented, he led a double life--the brilliant and well-behaved student at school, the princely... Read More |
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| Publication Date: September 1998 |
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| Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship |
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| by J. M. Coetzee |
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Winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature.
J. M. Coetzee presents a coherent, unorthodox analysis of censorship from the perspective of one who has lived and worked under its shadow. The essays collected here attempt to understand... Read More |
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| Publication Date: November 1997 |
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| The Master of Petersburg |
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| by J. M. Coetzee |
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| In 1869, an exiled Russian novelist returns to St Petersburg to collect the effects of his dead stepson, Pavel. But the stepson's incriminating papers have been found by the Tsarist police and the novelist finds himself drawn into an... Read More |
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| Publication Date: November 1995 |
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| Life and Times of Michael K |
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| by J. M. Coetzee |
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| In South Africa, whose civil administration is colapsing under the pressure of years of civil strife, an obscure young gardener named Michael K decides to take his mother on a long march away from the guns towards a new life in the abandoned... Read More |
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| Publication Date: September 1993 |
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| Dusklands |
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| by J. M. Coetzee |
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| A specialist in pyschological warefare is driven to breakdown and madness by the stressed of a project of macabre ingenuity to win the war in Vietnam. A meglomaniac Boer frontiersman wreaks hideous vengence on a Hottentot tribe for... Read More |
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| Publication Date: June 1985 |
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| In the Heart of the Country |
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| by J. M. Coetzee |
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| Stifled by the torpor of colonial South Africa, and trapped in a web of reciprocal oppression, a lonely sheep farmer seeks comfort in the arms of a black concubine. But when his embittered spinster daughter Magda feels shamed, this lurch... Read More |
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| Publication Date: October 1982 |
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| Waiting for the Barbarians |
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| by J. M. Coetzee |
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| For decades the Magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement, ignoring the impending war between the barbarians and the Empire, whose servant he is. But when the interrogation experts arrive, he is jolted into sympathy with... Read More |
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| Publication Date: April 1982 |
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| Waiting for the Barbarians |
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| by J. M. Coetzee |
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These deluxe editions are packaged with French flaps, acid-free paper, and rough front.
'A real literary event.'--The New York Times Book Review
'A story of profound beauty, clarity and eloquence, which even at its most... Read More |
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| Publication Date: April 1982 |
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