Disgrace - Brossura

Coetzee, J. M.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0099289520 ISBN 13: 9780099289524

Casa editrice: Vintage, 2000

Riassunto

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.

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Recensione:

"What is remarkable about Coetzee’s vision as a novelist is that it remains intensely human, rooted in common experience and replete with failure, doubt and frustration" (Guardian)

"Exhilarating... One of the best novelists alive" (Sunday Times)

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Winner of the 1999 Booker Prize

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• Editore: Vintage
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0099289520
• ISBN 13: 9780099289524
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 220