Disgrace

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Book Description: Secker & Warburg, 1999. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. New first edition, first printing with full number line. Bookseller Inventory # 1201010014

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Book Description: London: Secker & Warburg, 1999., 1999. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. Dust Jacket Included. 219 p. Cloth, d.w. The Biddles edition. Bookseller Inventory # etSG19657

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Book Description: Secker & Warburg, UK, 1999. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. An excellent copy, in near-mint condition. Signed and dated by the author (accompanied by a photograph of the signing event). Please visit my on-line store at Analectabooks! A divorced, middle-aged English professor finds himself increasingly unable to resist affairs with his female students. When discovered by the college authorities, he is expected to apologise and repent in an effort to save his job, but he refuses to become a scapegoat in what he see as as a show trial designed to reinforce a stringent political correctness. He preempts the authorities and leaves his job, and the city, to spend time with his grown-up lesbian daughter on her remote farm. Things between them are strained - there is much from the past they need to reconcile - and the situation becomes critical when they are the victims of a brutal and horrifying attack. In spectacularly powerful and lucid prose, Coetzee uses all his formidable skills to engage with a post-apartheid culture in unexpected and revealing ways. This examination into the sexual and politcal lawlines of modern South Africa as it tries desperately to start a fresh page in its history is chilling, uncompromising and unforgettable. Jacket review " The richness of Disgrace lies in the elegant and allegorical role reversals, the spare symbolism of the language and in the characterization. We may not like David Lurie, but in Coetzee's skillful hands we can't dismiss him without pity." -- "The Globe and Mail" " Coetzee is able to dissect the human psyche with a surgeon's touch." -- "The Hamilton Spectator" " Marvellous." -- "The National Post" " Disgrace is a subtle, multilayered story, as much concerned with politics as it is with the itch of male flesh. Coetzee's prose is chaste and lyrical -- it is a relief to encounter writing as quietly stylish as this." -- "Independent" " Disgrace is at the frontier of world literature." -- "Sunday Telegraph" " J.M. Coetzee's vision goes to the nerve-centre of being. What he finds there is more than most people will ever know about themselves, and he conveys it with a brilliant writer's mastery of tension and elegance." -- Nadine Gordimer. Signed by Author(s). Bookseller Inventory # 000169

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