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Elizabeth Costello / J.M. Coetzee.
LIBRA - Special PR9369.3.C58 E44 2004b
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Coetzee, J. M., 1940-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women authors--Fiction.
- Women authors.
- Australians.
- Foreign countries.
- Australians--Foreign countries--Fiction.
- Storytelling--Fiction.
- Storytelling.
- Authorship--Fiction.
- Authorship.
- Australia--Fiction.
- Australia.
- Psychological fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 231 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Penguin Books, 2004.
- Summary:
- Elizabeth Costello is a distinguished and aging Australian novelist whose life is revealed through a series of eight formal addresses. From an award-acceptance speech at a New England liberal arts college to a lecture on evil in Amsterdam and a sexually charged reading by the poet Robert Duncan, the author draws the reader toward its astonishing conclusion. The novel is, on its surface, the story of a woman's life as mother, sister, lover, and writer. Yet it is also a profound and haunting meditation on the nature of storytelling.
- Contents:
- Realism
- Novel in Africa
- Lives of animals: The philosophers and the animals
- Lives of animals: The poets and the animals
- Humanities in Africa
- Problem of evil
- Eros
- At the gate
- Letter of Elizabeth, Lady Chandos.
- ISBN:
- 0142004812
- 9780142004814
- 0670031305
- 9780670031306
- OCLC:
- 57399978
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