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Age of Iron by J. M. Coetzee; John Freeman (Introduction by)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 ...Show more
Age of Iron Penguin Essentials by J.m. Coetzee
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Category: Literature
In Cape Town, South Africa, an elderly classics professor writes a letter to her distant daughter, recounting the strange and disturbing events of her dying days. She has been opposed to the lies and brutality of apartheid all her life, but now she finds herself coming face-to-face with its true horrors ...Show more
Boyhood by J. M. Coetzee
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Category: Fiction
It is up to him to somehow get beyond childhood, beyond family and school, to a new life where he will not need to pretend any more.A young John Coetzee struggles to exert his autonomy in this perceptive evocation of his early years in the deeply divided South Africa of the 1940s. Coetzee reflects on hi ...Show more
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene; J. M. Coetzee (Introduction by)
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Category: No Category | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY J.M. COETZEEA gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold. Greene's gripping thriller, exposes a w ...Show more
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
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Category: Fiction
J. M. Coetzee's Booker Prize-winning novel Disgrace, set in post-apartheid South Africa, takes us into the disquieting mind of twice-divorced university teacher David Lurie as he loses his job and his honour after engaging in an ill-advised affair with a susceptible student. When he retreats to his dau ...Show more
Dusklands by J. M. Coetzee; Laura Jean McKay (Introduction by)
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You must listen. I speak with the voice of things to come. I speak in troubled times and tell you how to be as children again. J. M. Coetzee's debut novel is actually two stunning novellas: 'Vietnam Project', about a researcher investigating US propaganda and psychological warfare in Vietnam; and 'The ...Show more
Elizabeth Costello by J. M. Coetzee
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Category: Fiction
Elizabeth Costello is a humane, moral, and uncompromising creation.The subject of J.M. Coetzee's latest work of fiction is an Australian writer of international renown -- fêted, studied and honoured. Famous principally for an early novel that established her reputation and from which, it seems, she will ...Show more
Foe by J. M. Coetzee; Peter Goldsworthy (Introduction by)
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With electrical intensity of language and insight, J.M. Coetzee reinvents the story of Robinson Crusoe - and in so doing, directs our attention to the seduction and tyranny of storytelling itself. The stories we thought we knew acquire depths that are at once treacherous, elegant, and unexpectedly movin ...Show more
In the Heart of the Country by J. M. Coetzee; Adam Rivett (Introduction by)
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Today my father brought home his new bride. Magda lives on an isolated farm in South Africa with her callous father and their staff, who treat her with disdain. Her psychological state, already precarious, disintegrates when her father takes a black mistress, and a tenuous feudal peace is shattered. In ...Show more
Late Essays: 2006-2017 by J. M. Coetzee
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Crossing J.M. Coetzee's range of well-known writerly interests, including Beckett, with essays on Australian writers including Gerald Murnane, Patrick White and Les Murray. The subjects covered range from Daniel Defoe in the early eighteenth century to Coetzee's contemporary Philip Roth. Coetzee has had ...Show more
Life and Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee
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There was a cord of tenderness that stretched from him to the patch of earth beside that dam and must be cut. It seemed to him that one could cut a cord like that only so many times before it would not grow again. Michael K is returning his elderly mother to her rural birthplace when she dies, leaving ...Show more
Master of Petersburg by J.M. Coetzee
$24.00 AUD
Category: Literature
In The Master of Petersburg J. M. Coetzee dares to imagine the life of Dostoyevsky. Set in 1869, when Dostoyevsky was summoned from Germany to St Petersburg by the sudden death of his stepson, this novel is at once a compelling mystery steeped in the atmosphere of pre-revolutionary Russia and a brillian ...Show more