Disgrace
By: J.M. Coetzee.
Edition: 1st American ed. (1)
Publisher: Viking
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780670887316
Copyright date: 1999
Subjects: Fathers and daughters -- Fiction; Veterinarians -- Fiction; Farm life -- Fiction; South Africa -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: At fifty-two, Professor David Lurie is divorced, filled with desire, but lacking in passion. An affair with one of his students leaves him jobless, shunned by his friends, and ridiculed by his ex-wife. He retreats to his daughter Lucy's isolated smallholding, where a brief visit becomes an extended stay as he tries to find meaning from the one remaining relationship. David attempts to relate to Lucy and to a society with new racial complexities are disrupted by an afternoon of violence that shakes all of his beliefs and threatens to destroy his daughter. In this wry, visceral, yet strangely tender novel, Coetzee once again tells "truths [that] cut to the bone" (The New York Times Book Review).
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