Elizabeth Costello: Fiction - Brossura

Coetzee, J. M.

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ISBN 10: 0142004812 ISBN 13: 9780142004814

Casa editrice: Penguin Books, 2004

Riassunto

The life of aging Australian novelist Elizabeth Costello is revealed through a series of eight formal addresses that include an award-acceptance speech at a New England liberal arts college, a lecture on evil in Amsterdam, and a sexually charged reading by poet Robert Duncan. Reprint.

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Recensione:

[Elizabeth Costello] resonates in the mind long after it has been put aside. (John Banville, The Nation)

L'autore:

Born in Cape Town, South Africa, on February 9, 1940, John Michael Coetzee studied first at Cape Town and later at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned a Ph.D. degree in literature. In 1972 he returned to South Africa and joined the faculty of the University of Cape Town. His works of fiction include Dusklands, Waiting for the Barbarians, which won South Africa’s highest literary honor, the Central News Agency Literary Award, and the Life and Times of Michael K., for which Coetzee was awarded his first Booker Prize in 1983. He has also published a memoir, Boyhood: Scenes From a Provincial Life, and several essays collections. He has won many other literary prizes including the Lannan Award for Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize and The Irish Times International Fiction Prize. In 1999 he again won Britain’s prestigious Booker Prize for Disgrace, becoming the first author to win the award twice in its 31-year history. In 2003, Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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• Editore: Penguin Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0142004812
• ISBN 13: 9780142004814
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 240