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Boyhood by J. M. Coetzee
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
It is up to him to somehow get beyond childhood, beyond family and school, to a new life where he will not need to pretend any more.A young John Coetzee struggles to exert his autonomy in this perceptive evocation of his early years in the deeply divided South Africa of the 1940s. Coetzee reflects on hi ...Show more
Boyhood: A Memoir by J.M. Coetzee
$24.00 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
A first volume of memoirs, revisiting the South Africa of half a century ago, of a boy growing up in a small country town with a father he could not respect and a mother he adored. Coetzee evokes the tensions, delights and terrors of childhood, in a world of unexplained rules he knew he must obey.
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene; J. M. Coetzee (Introduction by)
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY J.M. COETZEEA gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold. Greene's gripping thriller, exposes a w ...Show more
Diary of a Bad Year: Text Classics by J. M. Coetzee
$14.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Text Classics
"She pouts. I was expecting more of a story, she says. It is difficult to get into the swing when the subject keeps changing." An ageing writer fills his journal: he has opinions about everything. He is challenged by Anya, the smart, irreverent young woman he hires to type his notes. Anya's boyfriend sc ...Show more
Disgrace by J M Coetzee
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
"INCLUDES A READING GUIDE After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, 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 refu ...Show more
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
J. M. Coetzee's Booker Prize-winning novel Disgrace, set in post-apartheid South Africa, takes us into the disquieting mind of twice-divorced university teacher David Lurie as he loses his job and his honour after engaging in an ill-advised affair with a susceptible student. When he retreats to his dau ...Show more
Life and Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
There was a cord of tenderness that stretched from him to the patch of earth beside that dam and must be cut. It seemed to him that one could cut a cord like that only so many times before it would not grow again. Michael K is returning his elderly mother to her rural birthplace when she dies, leaving ...Show more
The Master of Petersburg by J.m. Coetzee
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
History is coming to an end; the old account-books will soon be thrown into the fire; in this dead time between old and new, all things are permitted. He does not believe his answer particularly, does not disbelieve it. In the fall of 1869, Dostoevsky is summoned from Berlin to St Petersburg by the sud ...Show more
The Schooldays of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
David is the small boy who is always asking questions. Sim n and InUs take care of him in their new country. He is learning the language; he has begun to make friends. He has the big dog BolYvar to watch over him. But he'll be seven soon. He should be at school. And so David is enrolled in the Academy o ...Show more
Youth by J. M. Coetzee
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary Fiction
He has escaped South Africa. Everything is going well, he has attained his first goal, he ought to be happy. In fact, as the weeks pass, he finds himself more and more miserable. In this unforgiving portrait of the artist as a young man, John flees his apartheid-riven homeland for the bleak London of t ...Show more
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