Disgrace: A BBC Radio 4 Good Read (Vintage Classics) - Softcover

Coetzee, J.M.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1784879053 ISBN 13: 9781784879051

Publisher: Vintage Classics, 2024

Synopsis

After years teaching Romantic poetry in Cape Town, David Lurie has an impulsive affair with a student.

The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressure to repent publicly, he resigns and retreats to his daughter Lucy’s isolated smallholding. For a time, his daughter’s influence and the natural rhythms of the farm promise to harmonise his discordant life. But the balance of power in the country is shifting. He and Lucy become victims of a savage and disturbing attack which brings into relief all the faultlines in their relationship.

'A great novel by one of the finest authors writing in the English language today' The Times

'At the frontier of world literature' Sunday Telegraph

**One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**

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About the Author

J.M. Coetzee’s work includes Waiting for the Barbarians, Life & Times of Michael K, Boyhood, Youth, Disgrace, Summertime, The Childhood of Jesus and, most recently, The Schooldays of Jesus. He was the first author to win the Booker Prize twice and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003.

From the Back Cover

After years teaching Romantic poetry in Cape Town, David Lurie has an impulsive affair with a student.

The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressure to repent publicly, he resigns and retreats to his daughter Lucy’s isolated smallholding. For a time, his daughter’s influence and the natural rhythms of the farm promise to harmonise his discordant life. But the balance of power in the country is shifting. He and

Edition details

• Publisher: Vintage Classics
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1784879053
• ISBN 13: 9781784879051
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240