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Age of Iron by J. M. Coetzee; John Freeman (Introduction by)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
I am falling, I think, I am falling: welcome sweet sleep. Then at the very edge of oblivion something looms up and pulls me back, something whose name can only be dread. Mrs Curren, a Cape Town classics professor, is an opponent of the apartheid regime who has nonetheless been sheltered from its worst ...Show more
Boyhood by J. M. Coetzee
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
It is up to him to somehow get beyond childhood, beyond family and school, to a new life where he will not need to pretend any more.A young John Coetzee struggles to exert his autonomy in this perceptive evocation of his early years in the deeply divided South Africa of the 1940s. Coetzee reflects on hi ...Show more
Boyhood: A Memoir by J.M. Coetzee
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A first volume of memoirs, revisiting the South Africa of half a century ago, of a boy growing up in a small country town with a father he could not respect and a mother he adored. Coetzee evokes the tensions, delights and terrors of childhood, in a world of unexplained rules he knew he must obey.
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene; J. M. Coetzee (Introduction by)
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY J.M. COETZEEA gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold. Greene's gripping thriller, exposes a w ...Show more
Diary of a Bad Year: Text Classics by J. M. Coetzee
$14.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics
"She pouts. I was expecting more of a story, she says. It is difficult to get into the swing when the subject keeps changing." An ageing writer fills his journal: he has opinions about everything. He is challenged by Anya, the smart, irreverent young woman he hires to type his notes. Anya's boyfriend sc ...Show more
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
$19.99 AUD
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
Dusklands by J. M. Coetzee
$19.99 AUD
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
Elizabeth Costello by J. M. Coetzee
$19.99 AUD
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
Elizabeth Costello : Eight Lessons by J.M. Coetzee
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Elizabeth Costello is an Australian writer of international renown; she is feted, studied, 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 vener ...Show more
Foe by J. M. Coetzee; Peter Goldsworthy (Introduction by)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
With electrical intensity of language and insight, J.M. Coetzee reinvents the story of Robinson Crusoe - and in so doing, directs our attention to the seduction and tyranny of storytelling itself. The stories we thought we knew acquire depths that are at once treacherous, elegant, and unexpectedly movin ...Show more
Good Story: Exchanges on Truth... by J. M. Coetzee
$32.99 AUD
Category: Psychology
A fascinating dialogue on the human inclination to make up stories between a Nobel Prize-winning writer and a psychotherapist. The Good Story is an exchange between a writer with a long-standing interest in moral psychology and a psychotherapist with a training in literary studies. Arabella Kurtz and J. ...Show more
Here and Now by Paul Auster, J M Coetzee
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Here and Now is a collection of letters between Paul Auster and Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee, two of the greatest writers of our time. 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 ...Show more