Summary
As Text continues the re-release of J. M. Coetzee’s major works, this second instalment of four titles - with introductions from top emerging and established writers - will win over a new generation of Coetzee readers.
In a world of chance is there a better and a worse? We yield to a stranger’s embrace or give ourselves to the waves; for the blink of an eyelid our vigilance relaxes; we are asleep; and when we awake, we have lost the direction of our lives.
In this extraordinar…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781922268105 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1922268100 |
| Author: | J.M. Coetzee |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Text Publishing Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 1 October 2019 |
| Weight: | 146g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 12mm |
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Critics Review
‘A small miracle of a book…of marvellous intricacy and overwhelming power’
‘A small miracle of a book…of marvellous intricacy and overwhelming power’ * Washington Post *
‘At sentence level, [Coetzee] is, of course, a model of clarity – think of the dry and unornamented perspicuity Coetzee brings to bear in his fiction, the fastidiousness of thought…Yet the cumulative effect of this approach is not arid intellection but organic feeling: full-fleshed, mysterious and often extreme.’ * Monthly *
‘A major force in contemporary writing. A master, in fact.’ * Sunday Star Times *
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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