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Life & Times Of Michael K by J. M.  Coetzee A first South African hardcover edition published by Ravan Press in 1983 Black cover boards with gold writing to the spine, binding is tight & strong, no marks or inscriptions, dustjacket is complete, spine is lightly faded. Postage cost within South Africa will be R30.00 Overseas buyers can contact us for a postal quote  

Life & Times of Michael K In a South Africa torn by civil war, Michael K sets out to take his mother back to her rural home. On the way there she dies, leaving him alone in an anarchic world of brutal roving armies. Imprisoned, Michael is unable to bear confinement and escapes, determined to live with dignity. Life and Times of Michael K goes to the centre of human experience - the need for an interior, spiritual life, for some connections to the world in which we live, and for purity of vision. Author    J.M Coetzee ISBN       9780099479154 Format     Paperback Pages       184p.

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Hardback. English. Publisher: Ravan Press. 2003. In good condition. Dw is worn with some paper loss near top of spine. Previous owner's name inside.

Very good condition with dust jacket. 249 p. First edition 1983. [Postage = R55.00]

1983 first edition hardcover with dust jacket in very neat condition. R60 postage in SA. Name of previous owner in front.

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J M Coetzee's biographical account of his early childhood days in South Africa Edition: 1st, 1st UK Publisher: Secker and Warburg Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 0 436 204530 9

David is the small boy who is always asking questions. Simon and Ines take care of him in their new country. He is learning the language; he has begun to make friends. He has the big dog Bolivar to watch over him. But he'll be seven soon. He should be at school. And so David is enrolled in the Academy of Dance in Estrella. It's here, in his new golden dancing slippers, that he learns how to call down the numbers from the sky. But it's here too that he will make troubling discoveries about what grown-ups are capable of. The Schooldays of Jesus, the startling sequel to J.M. Coetzee's widely praised The Childhood of Jesus, will beguile its readers. With the mysterious simplicity of a fable, it tells a story that raises the most direct questions about life itself. ISBN 9781911215363 260 pages

Paperback. English. King Penguin. 1987. In fair condition. In a South Africa turned by war, Michael K. sets out to take his ailing mother back to her rural home. On the way there she dies, leaving him alone in an anarchic world of brutal roving armies. Imprisoned, Michael is unable to bear confinement and escapes, determined to live with dignity. This life affirming novel goes to the center of human experience

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Paperback. English. Vintage. 2009. In used condtion. 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.

About the product First edition. 8vo; original brown boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (vi) + 166. Dustwrapper sunned on spine panel; spine a little cocked; merest trace of foxing to top edge. Very good condition."Boyhood evokes the tensions, delights and terrors of childhood with startling, haunting immediacy. Coetzee examines his young self with the dispassionate curiosity of an explorer rediscovering his own early footprints, and the account of his progress is bright, hard and simply compelling."

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 24 hours Features Summary Spot On is spot on!. The most popular course in South Africa, Spot On has everything a learner needs in one book. Spot On improves results, makes learning enjoyable... Author M. Carstens (Author), T. Coetzee (Author), B. de Matos Ala (Author), J. Glover (Author), A. Klopper (Author), Philip Vercueil (Author), A. Wolmarans (Author) Publisher Heinemann Publishers (Pty) Ltd Release date 20120925 Pages 288 ISBN 0-7962-3480-9 ISBN 13 978-0-7962-3480-3

Illustrations by Cora Coetzee d/w very good Edition: 1st, SA edition Publisher: Fernwood Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 0 9563154 1 8

About the product First edition. 8vo; original brown boards, lettered in gilt on spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper; pp. (vi) + 166. Dustwrapper partially sunned and rubbed; some wear to edges of boards and tail of spine; occasional fox spot. Good condition."Boyhood evokes the tensions, delights and terrors of childhood with startling, haunting immediacy. Coetzee examines his young self with the dispassionate curiosity of an explorer rediscovering his own early footprints, and the account of his progress is bright, hard and simply compelling."

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days The idea of human cruelty to animals so consumes novelist Elizabeth Costello in her later years that she can no longer look another person in the eye: humans, especially meat-eating ones, seem to her to be conspirators in a crime of stupefying magnitude taking place on farms and in slaughterhouses, factories, and laboratories across the world. Costello's son, a physics professor, admires her literary achievements, but dreads his mother's lecturing on animal rights at the college where he teaches. His colleagues resist her argument that human reason is overrated and that the inability to reason does not diminish the value of life; his wife denounces his mother's vegetarianism as a form of moral superiority. At the dinner that follows her first lecture, the guests confront Costello with a range of sympathetic and skeptical reactions to issues of animal rights, touching on broad philosophical, anthropological, and religious perspectives. Painfully for her son, Elizabeth Costello seems offensive and flaky, but-dare he admit it?-strangely on target. In this landmark book, Nobel Prize-winning writer J. M. Coetzee uses fiction to present a powerfully moving discussion of animal rights in all their complexity. He draws us into Elizabeth Costello's own sense of mortality, her compassion for animals, and her alienation from humans, even from her own family. In his fable, presented as a Tanner Lecture sponsored by the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, Coetzee immerses us in a drama reflecting the real-life situation at hand: a writer delivering a lecture on an emotionally charged issue at a prestigious university. Literature, philosophy, performance, and deep human conviction-Coetzee brings all these elements into play. As in the story of Elizabeth Costello, the Tanner Lecture is followed by responses treating the reader to a variety of perspectives, delivered by leading thinkers in different fields. Coetzee's text is accompanied by an introduction by political philosopher Amy Gutmann and responsive essays by religion scholar Wendy Doniger, primatologist Barbara Smuts, literary theorist Marjorie Garber, and moral philosopher Peter Singer, author of Animal Liberation. Together the lecture-fable and the essays explore the palpable social consequences of uncompromising moral conflict and confrontation. Features Summary The description for this book, The Lives of Animals, will be forthcoming. Author J. M. Coetzee (Author), Amy Gutmann (Editor), Amy Gutmann (Introduction by) Publisher Princeton University Press Release date 20160909 Pages 125 ISBN 0-691-17390-7 ISBN 13 978-0-691-17390-0

Urban One This is a cutting-edge anthology that captures current South African popular culture. The feel is more Martin Amis than Andre Brink, Irvin Welsh than J.M. Coetzee. From a cross-section of young South African writers, these stories present an immediate vision of life in urban South Africa. Author Dave Chislett ISBN 086486518X, 9780864865182 Format Paperback Pages 107p.

Subtitle: Essays on Life and Writing Author: Hermione Lee Publisher: Chatto and Windus Edition: First Edition ISBN-10: 0701177594 ISBN-13: 9780701177591 Condition: Very Good - Dust jacket has rubbing; and creasing to edges Binding: Hardcover with dust jacket Pages: 245 Dimensions: 24 x 16 x 2.3 cm +++ by Hermione Lee +++ A series of brilliant studies of subjects ranging from T.S. Elliot to J.M. Coetzee, by  biographer and critic Hermione Lee, about every aspect of writing and reading.

Softcover. English. Cambridge University Press. 2001. ISBN: 9780521775540. 128pp. Good condition in softcover. Critical introductions to a range of literary topics and genres. This book encompasses experiences of the British Empire such as life in Nigeria before the arrival of the British, through to the British retreat from the Empire after the Second World War and on to reggae and 'dub' beats of black British poetry today. Includes writing from Indian, African, South African and Caribbean authors such as Salman Rushdie, Chinua Achebe, J.M. Coetzee and Derek Walcott. Book No: 2501374