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J. M. Coetzee - Disgrace

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In a novel set in post-apartheid South Africa, a fifty-two-year-old college professor who has lost his job for sleeping with a student tries to relate to his daughter, Lucy, who works with an ambitious African farmer. Book available.

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Key Information

Authors	J. M. Coetzee
Narrator	Michael Cumpsty
Fiction Genre	Family & Relationships
Fiction Subgenre	• • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Awards	1999 The Man Booker Prize

Professional Reviews

Professional Reviews

<b>Merkin, Daphne, <i>New Yorker</i>:</b> "[A] novel that not only works its spell but makes it impossible for us to lay it down once we've finished reading it--that makes demands upon us not by virtue of a self-conscious 'message' but by virtue of a narrative momentum that is itself expressive of moral urgency. Coetzee is the most cerebral and, with the exception of Breyten Breytenbach, the least given to sentimentality of the talented novelist to have come out of South Africa. He writes with a dark, compacted intelligence...."

Book Editions

Book Editions

Paperback220November 01, 2000Penguin Group USA7.75"(h) x 5"(w) x 0.75"(d), 0.4 lbs.9780140296402

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For a man of his age, fifty-two, divorced, he has, to his mind, solved the problem of sex rather well.

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