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In the Heart of the Country by J. M. Coetzee; Adam Rivett (Introduction by)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Today my father brought home his new bride. Magda lives on an isolated farm in South Africa with her callous father and their staff, who treat her with disdain. Her psychological state, already precarious, disintegrates when her father takes a black mistress, and a tenuous feudal peace is shattered. In ...Show more
Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000 - 2005 by J. M. Coetzee
$19.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Inner Workings is the second of three collections of literary criticism by J. M. Coetzee, including essays on Musil and Beckett, Bellow and Gordimer. These are concise, accessible introductions to some of the world's greatest writers, by a contemporary master.
Inner Workings - Literary Essays 2000-2005 by J M Coetzee
$39.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Reading Level: good
Late Essays: 2006-2017 by J. M. Coetzee
$29.99 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
Crossing J.M. Coetzee's range of well-known writerly interests, including Beckett, with essays on Australian writers including Gerald Murnane, Patrick White and Les Murray. The subjects covered range from Daniel Defoe in the early eighteenth century to Coetzee's contemporary Philip Roth. Coetzee has had ...Show more
Late Essays: 2006-2017 by J. M. Coetzee
$19.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Late Essays is the last of three collections of literary criticism by J. M. Coetzee to be republished by Text. It includes essays on Flaubert and Goethe, Patrick White and Gerald Murnane. These are concise, accessible introductions to some of the world's greatest writers, by a contemporary master.
Life and Times of Michael K by J.M. Coetzee
$19.99 AUD
Category: 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
Paul Auster & J M Coetzee - Here and Now - Letters 2008-2011 by Paul Auster; J M Coetzee
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Although Paul Auster and J.M. Coetzee had been reading each other's books for years, the two writers did not meet until February 2008. Not long after, Auster received a letter from Coetzee, suggesting they begin exchanging letters on a regular basis and, "God willing, strike sparks off each other". "Her ...Show more
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; 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