Elizabeth Costello
$16.99
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
4 August 2020
Summary
Continuing Text’s re-release of J.M. Coetzee’s revered works with stylish new covers, Elizabeth Costello is a modern classic by the great Nobel Prize winner, accompanied by an introduction from one of Australia’s foremost writing critics and Coetzee experts.
Introduction by Melinda Harvey
“Belief may be no more, in the end, than a source of energy, like a battery which one clips into an idea to make it run.”
Elizabeth Costello is a distinguish…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781922268440 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1922268445 |
| Author: | J.M. Coetzee |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Text Publishing Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 4 August 2020 |
| Weight: | 198g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 17mm |
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Critics Review
‘Freed from literary convention, Mr Coetzee writes not to provide answers, but to ask great questions.’
‘An intimacy born from urgency crackles through each of [Coetzee’s] books, as if one is not reading a text but being plugged into a brand new form of current—reinvented each time to carry a new and urgent form of narrative information.’ * John Freeman *
‘Coetzee is the most radical shapeshifter alive.’ * Australian *
‘Freed from literary convention, Mr Coetzee writes not to provide answers, but to ask great questions.’ * Economist *
About The Author
J.M. Coetzee
J. M. Coetzee was the first author to win the Booker Prize twice and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003.
His work includes:
- Waiting for the Barbarians
- Life and Times of Michael K
- The Master of Petersburg
- Disgrace
- Diary of a Bad Year
He lives in Adelaide.
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