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Genre/Form: | novels Historical fiction Bildungsromans Fiction Novels Romans Romans, nouvelles, etc Biography |
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Named Person: | J M Coetzee |
Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
J M Coetzee |
ISBN: | 9780142002001 0142002003 9780670031023 067003102X |
OCLC Number: | 53341007 |
Notes: | Originally published: New York, N.Y. : Viking, ©2002. |
Awards: | Winner of Nobel Prize in Literature. |
Description: | 169 pages ; 20 cm |
Responsibility: | J.M. Coetzee. |
Abstract:
Hoping to escape his South African home, dysfunctional family, and what he believes to be an impending revolution, a young man becomes disappointed with his monotonous new life in London and begins a dark pilgrimage.
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"A delight to read: it will make you angry, amused, scornful and sympathetic by turns." (San Francisco Chronicle)"Coetzee makes a book of melancholy beauty and quiet force." (Vince Passaro, O Magazine) Read more...
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- South Africans -- England -- Fiction.
- London (England) -- Fiction.
- Young men -- Fiction.
- Sud-Africains -- Angleterre -- Romans, nouvelles, etc.
- Jeunes hommes -- Romans, nouvelles, etc.
- South Africans.
- Young men.
- England.
- England -- London.
- Coetzee, J. M., -- 1940-.
- Authors, South African -- Biography.