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Disgrace

Coetzee, J.M.2000
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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.
Main title:
Disgrace / J. M. Coetzee.
Imprint:
London : Vintage, 2000.
Collation:
219 pages ; 20 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: London: Secker & Warburg, 1999.BCT - Book Club title, multiple copies available. StKrOLA
ISBN:
9780099289524
Dewey class:
823.914GF
Local class:
FICFFT PBKFictionSFAFPBKST COEAF PBK
Language:
English
BRN:
375578
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