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Foe : A Novel by J. M. Coetzee (1988, Uk-B Format Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-10014009623X

ISBN-139780140096231

eBay Product ID (ePID)19038260389

Product Key Features

Book TitleFoe : a Novel

Number of Pages160 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1988

TopicGeneral, Literary, Action & Adventure, Historical

GenreFiction

AuthorJ.M. Coetzee

FormatUk-B Format Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight4.8 Oz

Item Length7.8 in

Item Width5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN87-011913

Reviews"A small miracle of a book...of marvelous intricacy and overwhelming power." - The Washington Post Book World "Foe is a finely honed testament to its author''s intelligence, imagination, and skill.... The writing is lucid and precise, the landscape depicted mythic yet specific." - Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times , "A small miracle of a book...of marvelous intricacy and overwhelming power." - The Washington Post Book World "Foe is a finely honed testament to its author's intelligence, imagination, and skill.... The writing is lucid and precise, the landscape depicted mythic yet specific." - Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

Dewey Edition21

Grade FromTwelfth Grade

Dewey Decimal823

Grade ToUP

SynopsisWith the same electrical intensity of language and insight that he brought to Waiting for the Barbarians , J.M. Coetzee reinvents the story of Robinson Crusoe--and in so doing, directs our attention to the seduction and tyranny of storytelling itself. J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus , is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018. In 1720 the eminent man of letters Daniel Foe is approached by Susan Barton, lately a castaway on a desert island. She wants him to tell her story, and that of the enigmatic man who has become her rescuer, companion, master and sometimes lover: Cruso. Cruso is dead, and his manservant, Friday, is incapable of speech. As she tries to relate the truth about him, the ambitious Barton cannot help turning Cruso into her invention. For as narrated by Foe--as by Coetzee himself--the stories we thought we knew acquire depths that are at once treacherous, elegant, and unexpectedly moving.

LC Classification NumberPR9369.3.C58F6 1987