NY 1977 1st US edition. Hardcover octavo., 139p. Fine in VG d (one smallclsoed tear and one tiny chip on dj; price not clipped. ) no owner marks.

From the Heart of the Country

COETZEE,J.M.

Harper&Row

Disgrace

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Penguin USA

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 pressure to repent publicly, he resigns and retreats to his daughter Lucy's isolated smallholding. For a time, his daughter's influence and the natural rhythms of the farm promise to harmonise his discordant life. But the balance of power in the country is shifting. He and Lucy become victims of a savage and disturbing attack which brings into relief all the faultlines in their relationship.

Secker Warburg

Youth

Set against the background of the 1960s, Youth is a remarkable portrait of a consciousness turning in on itself. J.M. Coetzee explores a young man's struggle to find his way in the world with tenderness and a fierce clarity.

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Vintage

elizabeth costello

Vintage Books

Waiting for the Barbarians

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Waiting For the Barbarians

Genre Fiction

Elizabeth costello is a humane, moral, and uncompromising creationthe subject of jm 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 never escape, she has reached the stage, late in life, where her remaining function is to be venerated and applaudedone of a new breed of intellectual nomads, her life has become a series of engagements in sterile conference rooms throughout the world -- a private consciousness obliged to reveal itself to a curious public: the presentation of a major award at an american college where she is required to deliver a lecture; a sojourn as the writer-in-residence on a cruise liner during which she encounters a fellow guest lecturer, an african poet also employed to divert the passengers then there is a disquieting appearance at a writers' conference in amsterdam where she finds the subject of her talk unexpectedly among the audience she has made her life's work the study of other people, yet now it is she who is the object of scrutiny but, for her, what matters is the continuing search for a means of articulating her vision and the verdict of future generationsjm coetzee's latest work of fiction offers us a profound and delicate vision of literary celebrity, artistry and the private life of the mindfrom the hardcover edition

Elizabeth Costello

In a South Africa torn by civil war, Michael K sets out to take his mother back to her rural home. On the way there she dies, leaving him alone in an anarchic world of brutal roving armies. Imprisoned, Michael is unable to bear confinement and escapes, determined to live with dignity. Life and Times of Michael K goes to the centre of human experience -- the need for an interior, spiritual life, for some connections to the world in which we live, and for purity of vision.

The Life and Times of Michael K

United States

Slow Man

A masterful new novel from one of the greatest writers alive. 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 in Croatia, his in France. Tactfully and efficiently she ministers to his needs. But his feelings for her, and for her handsome teenage son, are complicated by the sudden arrival on his doorstep of the celebrated Australian novelist Elizabeth Costello, who threatens to take over the direction of his life and the affairs of his heart. Unflinching in its vision of suffering and generous in its portrayal of the spirit of care, Slow Man is a masterful work of fiction by one of the world’s greatest writers. From the Hardcover edition.

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From the Heart of the Country

Disgrace

Disgrace

Youth

Youth

elizabeth costello

Waiting For the Barbarians

Elizabeth Costello

The Life and Times of Michael K

Slow Man