Slow Man - Hardcover

Coetzee, J. M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670034592 ISBN 13: 9780670034598

Publisher: Viking Pr, 2005

Synopsis

Rendered dependent on others after losing his leg in a bicycle accident, sixty-year-old photographer 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. By the author of Elizabeth Costello. 75,000 first printing.

About this title

Review:

"Sensational... Another exemplary tale of suffering from one of the best writers of our time, who dares to articulate our incomprehensible existence, and manages it with extraordinary and sensitive eloquence" (The Times)

"[Slow Man] finds the Nobel laureate on top form... A consummate writer of fiction" (Observer)

"Coetzee is a unique voice; no novelist explores the ideas and the power of literature and the sense of displacement so boldly. Slow Man will add to his immense reputation" (Independent on Sunday)

"Remorselessly human, it is also funny and touching: Coetzee the artist remains the complete novelist" (Irish Times)

"A tremendous and startling novel... Coetzee is a novelist who cares about every word. Slow Man confirms him as among our greatest living authors" (The Times)

From the Publisher:

A masterful new novel from one of the greatest writers alive.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Pr
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0670034592
• ISBN 13: 9780670034598
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 265