Disgrace
By: J. M. Coetzee.
Edition: 4th printing
Publisher: Vintage; Vintage UK
Published: 2000
Place of publication: London, England
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780099289524
Copyright date: 1999
Subjects: Teacher-student relationships -- South Africa -- Fiction.; Political correctness -- South Africa -- Fiction.; South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1994- -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: 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 refusing to yield to pressure to repent publicly, he resigns and retreats to his daughter Lucy's isolated smallholding. 

For a time, his daughter's influence and the natural rhythms of the farm promise to harmonise his discordant life. But the balance of power in the country is shifting. He and Lucy become victims of a savage and disturbing attack which brings into relief all the faultlines in their relationship.
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Notes: Originally published: London: Secker & Warburg, 1999.
UK/CAN edition