Summertime - Hardcover

Coetzee, J. M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670021385 ISBN 13: 9780670021383

Publisher: Viking Pr, 2009

Synopsis

Researching a late South African writer, a young English biographer interviews five people whose accounts describe a reserved and bookish young man who had trouble making connections. By the Nobel Prize-winning author of Waiting for the Barbarians. 60,000 first printing.

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Review:

"Wonderful stuff. But then, Coetzee is wonderful: edgy, black, remorselessly human, witty, and often outright funny... Summertime is offbeat and deliberate, elusive and truthful" (Irish Times)

"The cumulative effect of Coetzee's unblinking honesty and his never-wavering seriousness is an understanding of the creation of a great writer" (Sunday Telegraph)

"A subtle, allusive meditation: an intriguing map of a weak character's constricted heart struggling against the undertow of suspicion within South Africa's claustrophobic, unpoetic, overtly macho society" (Financial Times)

"A poignant, cubistic portrait...It is not essential, however, that one know anything of Boyhood, Youth, or his other works to appreciate its rich offerings as an imaginatively distorted and distorting portrait of the artist as outsider" (TLS)

"Compelling, funny, moving and full of life" (Observer)

Book Description:

A rich, funny, and deeply affecting autobiographical new novel from one of the world's greatest living writers.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Pr
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0670021385
• ISBN 13: 9780670021383
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 266