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Scenes from Provincial Life by J. M. Coetzee
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Scenes from Provincial Life opens in a small town in the South Africa of the 1940s. We meet a young boy who, at home, is ill at ease with his father and stifled by his mother's unconditional love. At school he passes every test that is set for him, but he remains wary of his fellow pupils, especially th ...Show more
Slow Man by J M Coetzee
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Paul Rayment is on the threshold of a comfortable old age when a calamitous cycling accident results in the amputation of a leg. Humiliated, his body truncated, his life circumscribed, he turns away from his friends. He hires a nurse named Marijana, with whom he has a European childhood in common: hers ...Show more
Slow Man by J. M. Coetzee; M. J. Hyland (Introduction by)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
If none is left who will pronounce judgment on such a life, if the Great Judge of All has given up judging and withdrawn to pare his nails, then he will pronounce it himself: a wasted chance. When a bicycle accident causes photographer Paul Rayment to lose a leg, he must reexamine his life so far, and ...Show more
Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee
$45.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: very good
Paul Rayment is on the threshold of a comfortable old age when a calamitous cycling accident results in the amputation of a leg. Humiliated, his body truncated, his life circumscribed, he turns away from his friends.He hires a nurse named Marijana, with whom he has a European childhood in common: hers i ...Show more
Stranger Shores - Essays 1986-1999 by J.M. Coetzee
$30.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Reading Level: good
A collection of 29 pieces on books, writing, photography, and the 1995 Rugby World Cup in South Africa. With literary subjects ranging from Defoe through Rilke and Kafka to the giants of the 20th century, those who admire Coetzee as a novelist can also read his literary criticism.
Stranger Shores: Essays 1986 - 1999 by J. M. Coetzee
$19.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Stranger Shores is the first of three collections of literary criticism by J. M. Coetzee to be republished by Text. It includes essays on Dostoevsky and Kafka, A. S. Byatt and Doris Lessing. These are concise, accessible introductions to some of the world's greatest writers, by a contemporary master. ...Show more
Summertime by J. M. Coetzee
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
And he was just a boy, this Mr Coetzee. I was a woman and he was a boy. He was a boy as a priest is always a boy until suddenly one day he is an old man. After some time in America, the young unpublished writer John Coetzee returns to suburban Cape Town to live with his ailing father. His biographer ch ...Show more
Summertime by J.M. Coetzee
$39.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer John Coetzee. He plans to focus on the years 1972-1977 when Coetzee, in his thirties, is sharing a rundown cottage in the suburbs of Cape Town with his widowed father. This, the biographer senses, is the period when he was finding his ...Show more
Summertime by J.M. Coetzee
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A rich, funny, and deeply affecting autobiographical novel from one of the world's greatest living writers.
The Childhood of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
'The child is silent. For a while he too is silent. Then he speaks. 'Please believe me - please take it on faith - this is not a simple matter. The boy is without mother. What that means I cannot explain to you because I cannot explain it to myself. Yet I promise you, if you will simply say Yes, without ...Show more
The Childhood of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The child is silent. For a while he too is silent. Then he speaks. 'Please believe me—please take it on faith—this is not a simple matter. The boy is without mother. What that means I cannot explain to you because I cannot explain it to myself. Yet I promise you, if you will simply say Yes, without fore ...Show more
The Confusions of Young Torless by J. M. Coetzee
$20.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
At a bleak, isolated military school on the fringes of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, four young cadets - Torless, Beineberg, Reiting and their victim Basini - drift even further away from their school-fellows into a private world of ritual, secrecy and torture. This title is first published in 1906.