J. M Coetzee
Author
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
A story told in prose as feverishly rich as William Faulkner's, In the Heart of the Country is a work of irresistable power.
J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018.
On a remote farm in South Africa, the protagonist of J. M. Coetzee's fierce and passionate novel watches the life...
J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018.
On a remote farm in South Africa, the protagonist of J. M. Coetzee's fierce and passionate novel watches the life...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
A new collection of twenty-two literary essays from the Nobel Prize-winning author J.M. Coetzee J.M. Coetzee is not only one of the most acclaimed fiction writers in the world, he is also an accomplished and insightful literary critic. In Late Essays, a thought-provoking collection of twenty-two pieces, he examines the work of some of the world's greatest writers-from Daniel Defoe and Samuel Beckett to Irene Nemirovsky and Goethe. Challenging yet...
Author
Series
Childhood of Jesus volume 2
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
David is the small boy who is always asking questions. Simon and Ines take care of him in their new town Estrella. He is learning the language; he has begun to make friends. He has the big dog Bolivar to watch over him. But he'll be seven soon and he should be at school. And so, David is enrolled in the Academy of Dance. It's here, in his new golden dancing slippers, that he learns how to call down the numbers from the sky. But it's here too that...
Author
Series
Childhood of Jesus volume 1
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Separated from his mother as a passenger on a boat bound for a new land, David is a boy who is quite literally adrift. The piece of paper explaining his situation is lost, but a fellow passenger, Simón, vows to look after the boy. When the boat docks, David and Simón are issued new names, new birthdays, and virtually a whole new life. Strangers in a strange land, knowing nothing of their surroundings, nor the language or customs, they are determined...
5) Disgrace
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
220 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fifty-two-year-old David Lurie, having lost his job and the respect of his friends and ex-wife after an affair with one of his students, retreats to his daughter's isolated small holding in South Africa where he attempts to relate to her and a society with new racial complexities.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1985
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
184 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In South Africa, whose civil administration is colapsing under the pressure of years of civil strife, an obscure young gardener named Michael K decides to take his mother on a long march away from the guns towards a new life in the abandoned countryside. Everywhere he goes however, the war follows him. Tracked down and locked up as a collaborator with the rural guerrillas, he embarks on a fast that angers, baffles, and finally awes his captors
8) Slow man
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
265 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dependent on others after losing his leg in an accident, sixty-year-old Paul Rayment finds himself falling in love with a down-to-earth Croatian nurse and encouraged by a mysterious writer to take an activist role in his own life.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
167 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Exacting yet unpredictable, pithy yet complex, Coetzee's The Pole tells the story of Wittold Walccyzkiecz, a vigorous, extravagantly white-haired pianist and interpreter of Chopin who becomes infatuated with Beatriz, a stylish patron of the arts, after she helps organize his concert in Barcelona. Although Beatriz, a married woman, is initially unimpressed by Wittold and his "gleaming dentures," she soon finds herself pursued and ineluctably swept...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
233 p. : 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth Costello is a distinguished and aging Australian novelist whose life is revealed through an ingenious series of eight formal addresses. From an award-acceptance speech at a New England liberal arts college to a lecture on evil in Amsterdam and a sexually charged reading by the poet Robert Duncan, Coetzee draws the reader inexorably toward its astonishing conclusion.