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Age of Iron Penguin Essentials by J.m. Coetzee
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
In Cape Town, South Africa, an elderly classics professor writes a letter to her distant daughter, recounting the strange and disturbing events of her dying days. She has been opposed to the lies and brutality of apartheid all her life, but now she finds herself coming face-to-face with its true horrors ...Show more
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene; J. M. Coetzee (Introduction by)
$12.99 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
$12.95 AUD
Category: Australian 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: Australian 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
Good Story: Exchanges on Truth... by J. M. Coetzee
$32.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
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: Letters by J. M. Coetzee
$19.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies
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 letter from Coetzee, suggesting they begin exchanging letters on a regular basis and, 'God willing, strike sparks off each other.' Here ...Show more
Paul Auster & J M Coetzee - Here and Now - Letters 2008-2011 by Paul Auster; J M Coetzee
$27.99 AUD
Category: Literary Studies | Reading Level: very good
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 letter from Coetzee, suggesting they begin exchanging letters on a regular basis and, "God willing, strike sparks off each other". "Her ...Show more
Slow Man by J. M. Coetzee; M. J. Hyland (Introduction by)
$19.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
If none is left who will pronounce judgment on such a life, if the Great Judge of All has given up judging and withdrawn to pare his nails, then he will pronounce it himself: a wasted chance. When a bicycle accident causes photographer Paul Rayment to lose a leg, he must reexamine his life so far, and ...Show more
Summertime by J.M. Coetzee
$39.95 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: very good
A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer John Coetzee. He plans to focus on the years 1972-1977 when Coetzee, in his thirties, is sharing a rundown cottage in the suburbs of Cape Town with his widowed father. This, the biographer senses, is the period when he was finding his ...Show more
The Childhood of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee
$34.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
'The child is silent. For a while he too is silent. Then he speaks. 'Please believe me - please take it on faith - this is not a simple matter. The boy is without mother. What that means I cannot explain to you because I cannot explain it to myself. Yet I promise you, if you will simply say Yes, without ...Show more
The Childhood of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee
$22.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction
The child is silent. For a while he too is silent. Then he speaks. 'Please believe me—please take it on faith—this is not a simple matter. The boy is without mother. What that means I cannot explain to you because I cannot explain it to myself. Yet I promise you, if you will simply say Yes, without fore ...Show more
The Death of Jesus by J. M. Coetzee
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: #3 | Reading Level: Adult
After The Childhood of Jesus and The Schooldays of Jesus, J. M. Coetzee completes his trilogy with a new masterwork, The Death of Jesus. David has grown to be a tall ten-year-old. He is a natural at soccer, and loves kicking a ball around with his friends. His father Sim n and Bolivar the dog usually wa ...Show more