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Age of Iron by J.M. Coetzee
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
In Cape Town, South Africa, an elderly classics professor writes a letter to her distant daughter, recounting the strange and disturbing events of her dying days. She has been opposed to the lies and brutality of apartheid all her life, but now she finds herself coming face-to-face with its true horrors ...Show more
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene; J. M. Coetzee (Introduction by)
$29.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY J.M. COETZEEA gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold. Greene's gripping thriller, exposes a w ...Show more
Diary of a Bad Year by J.M. Coetzee
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
All about loneliness, friendship and the possibility of love. It takes the reader from Australian democracy to Guantanamo Bay, from the meaning of dishonour to the creative truth of dreams. Author has lived in Australia since 2002 and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003. First published 2 ...Show more
Diary of a Bad Year by J M Coetzee
$40.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
All about loneliness, friendship and the possibility of love. It takes the reader from Australian democracy to Guantanamo Bay, from the meaning of dishonour to the creative truth of dreams. Author has lived in Australia since 2002 and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003. First published 2 ...Show more
Diary of a Bad Year: Text Classics by J. M. Coetzee
$16.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Text Classics
"She pouts. I was expecting more of a story, she says. It is difficult to get into the swing when the subject keeps changing." An ageing writer fills his journal: he has opinions about everything. He is challenged by Anya, the smart, irreverent young woman he hires to type his notes. Anya's boyfriend sc ...Show more
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
$20.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
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 pressue t ...Show more
Foe by J.M. Coetzee
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
In the early eighteenth century, a woman finds herself set adrift from a mutinous ship and cast ashore on a remote desert island. There she finds shelter with its only other inhabitants: a man named Cruso and his tongueless slave Friday. In time, she builds a life for herself as Cruso's companion and, e ...Show more
Good Story: Exchanges on Truth... by J. M. Coetzee
$48.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
A fascinating dialogue on the human inclination to make up stories between a Nobel Prize-winning writer and a psychotherapist. The Good Story is an exchange between a writer with a long-standing interest in moral psychology and a psychotherapist with a training in literary studies. Arabella Kurtz and J. ...Show more
Late Essays: 2006-2017 by J. M. Coetzee
$38.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Crossing J.M. Coetzee's range of well-known writerly interests, including Beckett, with essays on Australian writers including Gerald Murnane, Patrick White and Les Murray. The subjects covered range from Daniel Defoe in the early eighteenth century to Coetzee's contemporary Philip Roth. Coetzee has had ...Show more
Paul Auster & J M Coetzee - Here and Now - Letters 2008-2011 by Paul Auster; J M Coetzee
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
Although Paul Auster and J.M. Coetzee had been reading each other's books for years, the two writers did not meet until February 2008. Not long after, Auster received a letter from Coetzee, suggesting they begin exchanging letters on a regular basis and, "God willing, strike sparks off each other". "Her ...Show more
Scenes from Provincial Life by J. M. Coetzee
$43.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Scenes from Provincial Life opens in a small town in the South Africa of the 1940s. We meet a young boy who, at home, is ill at ease with his father and stifled by his mother's unconditional love. At school he passes every test that is set for him, but he remains wary of his fellow pupils, especially th ...Show more
Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee
$50.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Paul Rayment is on the threshold of a comfortable old age when a calamitous cycling accident results in the amputation of a leg. Humiliated, his body truncated, his life circumscribed, he turns away from his friends.He hires a nurse named Marijana, with whom he has a European childhood in common: hers i ...Show more