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Elizabeth Costello by J. M. Coetzee
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Category: Fiction
Elizabeth Costello is a humane, moral, and uncompromising creation.The subject of J.M. Coetzee's latest work of fiction is an Australian writer of international renown -- fêted, studied and honoured. Famous principally for an early novel that established her reputation and from which, it seems, she will ...Show more
Elizabeth Costello : Eight Lessons by J.M. Coetzee
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Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Elizabeth Costello is an Australian writer of international renown; she is feted, studied, honoured. Famous principally for an early novel that established her reputation and from which, it seems, she will never escape, she has reached the stage, late in life, where her remaining function is to be vener ...Show more
Foe by J. M. Coetzee; Peter Goldsworthy (Introduction by)
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Category: Fiction
With electrical intensity of language and insight, J.M. Coetzee reinvents the story of Robinson Crusoe - and in so doing, directs our attention to the seduction and tyranny of storytelling itself. The stories we thought we knew acquire depths that are at once treacherous, elegant, and unexpectedly movin ...Show more
Foe by J.M. Coetzee
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Category: Fiction
In the early eighteenth century, a woman finds herself set adrift from a mutinous ship and cast ashore on a remote desert island. There she finds shelter with its only other inhabitants: a man named Cruso and his tongueless slave Friday. In time, she builds a life for herself as Cruso's companion and, e ...Show more
Here and Now by Paul Auster, J M Coetzee
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Category: Biography & Memoir
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
In the Heart of the Country by J. M. Coetzee; Adam Rivett (Introduction by)
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Category: Fiction
Today my father brought home his new bride. Magda lives on an isolated farm in South Africa with her callous father and their staff, who treat her with disdain. Her psychological state, already precarious, disintegrates when her father takes a black mistress, and a tenuous feudal peace is shattered. In ...Show more
Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000 - 2005 by J. M. Coetzee
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Category: Culture & Ideas
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: Anthologies
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.
Late Essays: 2006-2017 by J. M. Coetzee
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Category: Culture & Ideas
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
Life and Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee
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Category: Fiction
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
Slow Man by J. M. Coetzee; M. J. Hyland (Introduction by)
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Category: Fiction
If none is left who will pronounce judgment on such a life, if the Great Judge of All has given up judging and withdrawn to pare his nails, then he will pronounce it himself: a wasted chance. When a bicycle accident causes photographer Paul Rayment to lose a leg, he must reexamine his life so far, and ...Show more
Stranger Shores: Essays 1986 - 1999 by J. M. Coetzee
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Category: Culture & Ideas
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