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Diary of a Bad Year: Text Classics by J. M. Coetzee
$12.95 AUD
Category: Classics | 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: General | Reading Level: good-very good
"INCLUDES A READING GUIDE 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 refu ...Show more
Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics
"INCLUDES A READING GUIDE 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 refu ...Show more
Good Story: Exchanges on Truth... by J. M. Coetzee
$32.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
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: Essays & Letters
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
Here and Now: Letters by J. M. Coetzee
$19.99 AUD
Category: SALE TABLE
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
Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000 - 2005 by J. M. Coetzee
$19.99 AUD
Category: Essays & Letters
Inner Workings is the second of three collections of literary criticism by J. M. Coetzee, including essays on Musil and Beckett, Bellow and Gordimer. These are concise, accessible introductions to some of the world's greatest writers, by a contemporary master.
Late Essays: 2006-2017 by J. M. Coetzee
$29.99 AUD
Category: Essays & Letters
Crossing J.M. Coetzee's range of well-known writerly interests, including Beckett, with essays on Australian writers including Gerald Murnane, Patrick White and Les Murray. The subjects covered range from Daniel Defoe in the early eighteenth century to Coetzee's contemporary Philip Roth. Coetzee has had ...Show more
Master of Petersburg by J.M. Coetzee
$24.99 AUD
Category: General
In The Master of Petersburg J. M. Coetzee dares to imagine the life of Dostoyevsky. Set in 1869, when Dostoyevsky was summoned from Germany to St Petersburg by the sudden death of his stepson, this novel is at once a compelling mystery steeped in the atmosphere of pre-revolutionary Russia and a brillian ...Show more
Slow Man by J. M. Coetzee; M. J. Hyland (Introduction by)
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
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
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Category: General
And he was just a boy, this Mr Coetzee. I was a woman and he was a boy. He was a boy as a priest is always a boy until suddenly one day he is an old man. After some time in America, the young unpublished writer John Coetzee returns to suburban Cape Town to live with his ailing father. His biographer ch ...Show more
Summertime by J.M. Coetzee
$19.99 AUD
Category: General
A rich, funny, and deeply affecting autobiographical novel from one of the world's greatest living writers.