num_pages: 80
description: As he gets older he finds himself growing more and more crabby about language about slack usage falling standards. Falling in love for instance. We fell in love with the house friends of his say. How can you fall in love with a house when the house cannot love you back he wants to reply? Once you start falling in love with objects what will be left of real love love as itused to be? But no one seems to care. People fall in love with tapestries with old cars.A man contemplates his deep connection to a house.The unfathomable idea of threshing wheat points to a life lost.And a writer ponders the creation of his narrator.Three Stories'His Man and He written as Coetzees acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize for Literature A House in Spain and Nietverlorenis the work of a master at his peak. These are stories that embody the essence of our existence.
language: English
title: Three Stories
publisher: The Text Publishing Company