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Summertime by J. M. Coetzee (2009, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-100670021385
ISBN-139780670021383
eBay Product ID (ePID)77445586
Product Key Features
Book TitleSummertime
Number of Pages272 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicLiterary, Biographical
Publication Year2009
GenreFiction
AuthorJ.M. Coetzee
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight14.1 Oz
Item Length8.4 in
Item Width5.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2009-037527
Dewey Edition22
Grade FromTwelfth Grade
Dewey Decimal823/.914
Grade ToUP
SynopsisShortlisted for the 2009 Man Booker Prize A brilliant new work of fiction from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Disgrace and Diary of a Bad Year A young English biographer is researching a book about the late South African writer John Coetzee, focusing on Coetzee in his thirties, at a time when he was living in a rundown cottage in the Cape Town suburbs with his widowed father-a time, the biographer is convinced, when Coetzee was finding himself as a writer. Never having met the man himself, the biographer interviews five people who knew Coetzee well, including a married woman with whom he had an affair, his cousin Margot, and a Brazilian dancer whose daughter took English lessons with him. These accounts add up to an image of an awkward, reserved, and bookish young man who finds it hard to make meaningful connections with the people around him. Summertime is an inventive and inspired work of fiction that allows J.M. Coetzee to imagine his own life with a critical and unsparing eye, revealing painful moral struggles and attempts to come to grips with what it means to care for another human being. Incisive, elegant, and often surprisingly funny, Summertime is a compelling work by one of today's most esteemed writers., This brilliant new work of fiction from the Nobel Prize-winning author of "Disgrace" and "Diary of a Bad Year" allows Coetzee to imagine his own life, revealing painful moral struggles and attempts to come to grips with what it means to care for another human being.
LC Classification NumberPR9369.3.C58S86 2010
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