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Disgrace / J.M. Coetzee.
Van Pelt Library PR9369.3.C58 D5 2008
By Request
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Coetzee, J. M., 1940-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Fathers and daughters--South Africa--Fiction.
- Fathers and daughters.
- South Africa.
- Veterinarians--South Africa--Fiction.
- Veterinarians.
- Farm life--South Africa--Fiction.
- Farm life.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 220 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Penguin Books, 2008.
- Summary:
- At fifty-two Professor David Lurie is divorced, filled with desire but lacking in passion. An affair with one of his students leaves him jobless and friendless. Except for his daughter, Lucy, who works her smallholding with her neighbor, Petrus, an African farmer now on the way to a modest prosperity. David's attempts to relate to Lucy, and to a society with new racial complexities, are disrupted by an afternoon of violence that changes him and his daughter in ways he could never have foreseen. In this wry, visceral, yet strangely tender novel, Coetzee once again tells "truths [that] cut to the bone." (The New York Times Book Review)
- ISBN:
- 0143115286
- 9780143115281
- OCLC:
- 262832725
- Publisher Number:
- 99947835566
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