Summary
I am falling, I think, I am falling—welcome, sweet sleep. Then, at the very edge of oblivion, something looms up and pulls me back, something whose name can only be dread.
Mrs. Curren, a Cape Town classics professor, is an opponent of the apartheid regime who has nonetheless been sheltered from its worst horrors. Now she is dying of cancer. In her final days, she must confront the violence, chaos, and injustice of her own society. Then Mr. Vercueil, a homeless alcoholic, is found slee…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781922268112 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1922268119 |
| Author: | J.M. Coetzee |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Text Publishing Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 1 October 2019 |
| Weight: | 179g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 15mm |
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Critics Review
‘Exhilarating…One of the best novelists alive.’
‘A superbly realised novel whose truth cuts to the bone.’ * New York Times * ‘[Coetzee] is a consummate withholder, one of the great masters of the unsaid and the inexplicit.’ * New York Review of Books * ‘Exhilarating…One of the best novelists alive.’ * Sunday Times * ‘Coetzee’s tough-minded Age of Iron tests our notions of fairness and charity. It stayed in my mind long after I first read it.’ – Robyn Walton * Australian *
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 and Diary of a Bad Year. He lives in Adelaide.
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