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Summertime by J.M. Coetzee
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A rich, funny, and deeply affecting autobiographical novel from one of the world's greatest living writers.
Summertime by J.M Coetzee
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A rich, funny, and deeply affecting autobiographical novel from one of the world's greatest living writers.A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. He plans to focus on the years from 1972-1977 when Coetzee, in his thirties, is sharing a run-down cottage in th ...Show more
Summertime by J. M. Coetzee
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
And he was just a boy, this Mr Coetzee. I was a woman and he was a boy. He was a boy as a priest is always a boy until suddenly one day he is an old man. After some time in America, the young unpublished writer John Coetzee returns to suburban Cape Town to live with his ailing father. His biographer ch ...Show more
The Childhood of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The child is silent. For a while he too is silent. Then he speaks. 'Please believe me—please take it on faith—this is not a simple matter. The boy is without mother. What that means I cannot explain to you because I cannot explain it to myself. Yet I promise you, if you will simply say Yes, without fore ...Show more
The Death of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: #3 | Reading Level: Adult
After The Childhood of Jesus and The Schooldays of Jesus, J. M. Coetzee completes his trilogy with a new masterwork, The Death of Jesus. David has grown to be a tall ten-year-old. He is a natural at soccer, and loves kicking a ball around with his friends. His father Sim n and Bolivar the dog usually wa ...Show more
The Good Story: Exchanges on Truth, Fiction and Psychotherapy by Arabella Kurtz and J. M. Coetzee
19.99 AUD
Category: Self Help
A fascinating dialogue on the human inclination to make up stories between a Nobel Prize-winning writer and a psychotherapist.Arabella Kurtz and J. M. Coetzee consider psychotherapy and its wider social context from different perspectives, but at the heart of both their approaches is a concern with stor ...Show more
The Lives of Animals by J.M. Coetzee
28.95 AUD
Category: unmapped | Series: University Center for Human Values Series
The idea of human cruelty to animals so consumes novelist Elizabeth Costello in her later years that she can no longer look another person in the eye: humans, especially meat-eating ones, seem to her to be conspirators in a crime of stupefying magnitude taking place on farms and in slaughterhouses, fact ...Show more
The Master of Petersburg by J.m. Coetzee
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
History is coming to an end; the old account-books will soon be thrown into the fire; in this dead time between old and new, all things are permitted. He does not believe his answer particularly, does not disbelieve it. In the fall of 1869, Dostoevsky is summoned from Berlin to St Petersburg by the sud ...Show more
The Pole and Other Stories by J. M. Coetzee
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee reaffirms his place as one of the English language's most acclaimed authors with this fascinating examination of life, death and animals. These six stories by Nobel-Prize-winning J. M. Coetzee remind us that he is a writer whose language explores moral and emotional quandar ...Show more
The Schooldays of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee
23.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The Schooldays of Jesus, is the startling sequel to J. M. Coetzee's widely praised The Childhood of Jesus David is the small boy who is always asking questions. Sim n and InUs take care of him in their new country. He is learning the language; he has begun to make friends. He has the big dog BolYvar to ...Show more
Waiting for the Barbarians by J. M. Coetzee
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"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 the victims and into a quixotic act of rebellion which lands hi ...Show more
Waiting for the Barbarians by J.m. Coetzee
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
How do you eradicate contempt, especially when that contempt is founded on noting more substantial than differences in table manners, variations in the structure of the eyelid? Shall I tell you what I sometimes wish? I wish that these barbarians would rise up and teach us a lesson, so that we would lear ...Show more