Diary of a Bad Year: Fiction - Softcover

Coetzee, J M

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143114484 ISBN 13: 9780143114482

Publisher: Penguin Books, 2008

Synopsis

Diary of a Bad Year takes on the world of politics--a new topic for Coetzee--and explores the role of the writer in our times with an extraordinary moral compass.

J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018.

J.M. Coetzee once again breaks literary ground with Diary of a Bad Year, a book that is, in the words of its protagonist, a response to the present in which I find myself. Aging author Senor C has been commissioned to write a series of essays entitled Strong Opinions, of which he has many. After hiring a beautiful young typist named Anya, the two embark on a relationship that will have a profound impact on them both especially when Alan, Anya's no-good boyfriend, develops designs on Senor C's bank account. Told in these three voices simultaneously, Coetzee has created any entirely new way of telling a story, and nothing less than an involving, argumentative, moving novel (The New Yorker).

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Review:

a Coetzee is one of the English-speaking worldas great tragic storytellers. . . . [This novel] offers exciting formal evidence of a literary artistas capacity to keep up with the chaotic malfunctions of our time.a
a"O, The Oprah Magazine"
a J. M. Coetzeeas novel Diary of a Bad Year is something of a self-managed funeral, but a lavish one: mordant, funny and wise. Mr. Coetzee writes circles around any attempt to pin him down.a
a Richard Eder, "The New York Times"

Coetzee is one of the English-speaking world s great tragic storytellers. . . . [This novel] offers exciting formal evidence of a literary artist s capacity to keep up with the chaotic malfunctions of our time.
"O, The Oprah Magazine"
J. M. Coetzee s novel Diary of a Bad Year is something of a self-managed funeral, but a lavish one: mordant, funny and wise. Mr. Coetzee writes circles around any attempt to pin him down.
Richard Eder, "The New York Times"

? Coetzee is one of the English-speaking world's great tragic storytellers. . . . [This novel] offers exciting formal evidence of a literary artist's capacity to keep up with the chaotic malfunctions of our time.?
?"O, The Oprah Magazine"

? J. M. Coetzee's novel Diary of a Bad Year is something of a self-managed funeral, but a lavish one: mordant, funny and wise. Mr. Coetzee writes circles around any attempt to pin him down.?
? Richard Eder, "The New York Times"

Book Description:

Diary of a Bad Year is an utterly contemporary work of fiction from one of our greatest writers and deepest thinkers. It addresses the profound unease of countless people in democracies across the world.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0143114484
• ISBN 13: 9780143114482
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240