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Disgrace by J M Coetzee
Category: Fiction
A divorced, middle-aged English professor finds himself increasingly unable to resist affairs with his female students. When discovered by the college authorities he is expected to apologize to save his job, but instead he refuses and resigns, retiring to live with his daughter on her remote farm.
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
Category: Fiction
After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressue t ...Show more
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
Category: Classic | Series: Vintage 21
David Lurie, a middle-aged divorcee lecturing at the Technical University of Cape Town, has an impulsive affair with a student. When the passion sours and he is denounced, he resigns and retreats to his daughter Lucy's isolated smallholding. For a time, he finds calm in the routine of farm life, but the ...Show more
Disgrace by J M Coetzee
Category: Fiction
"INCLUDES A READING GUIDE After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refu ...Show more
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
Category: Fiction
J. M. Coetzee's Booker Prize-winning novel Disgrace, set in post-apartheid South Africa, takes us into the disquieting mind of twice-divorced university teacher David Lurie as he loses his job and his honour after engaging in an ill-advised affair with a susceptible student. When he retreats to his dau ...Show more
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
Category: Fiction
David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, is a scholar fallen into disgrace. After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, he has an impulsive affair with a student. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressure to repent publicly, he resigns and retre ...Show more
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
Category: Fiction
A divorced, middle-aged English professor finds himself increasingly unable to resist affairs with his female students. When discovered by the college authorities, he is expected to apologise and repent in an effort to save his job, but he refuses to become a scapegoat in what he sees as a show trial de ...Show more
Disgrace - A Novel by J. M. Coetzee
Category: Romance
From the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018. Compulsively readable... A novel that not only works its spell but makes it impossible for us to lay it aside once ...Show more
Dusklands by J. M. Coetzee
Category: Fiction
You must listen. I speak with the voice of things to come. I speak in troubled times and tell you how to be as children again. J. M. Coetzee's debut novel is actually two stunning novellas: 'Vietnam Project', about a researcher investigating US propaganda and psychological warfare in Vietnam; and 'The ...Show more
Dusklands by J.M. Coetzee
Category: Fiction
A specialist in pyschological warefare is driven to braekdown and madness by the stressed of a project of macabre ingenuity to win the war in Vietnam. A meglomaniac Boer frontiersman wreaks hideous vengence on a Hottentot tribe for undermining the 'natural' order of his universe with their anarchic riva ...Show more
Elizabeth Costello by J. M. Coetzee
Category: Fiction
Elizabeth Costello is a humane, moral, and uncompromising creation.The subject of J.M. Coetzee's latest work of fiction is an Australian writer of international renown -- fêted, studied and honoured. Famous principally for an early novel that established her reputation and from which, it seems, she will ...Show more