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Disgrace :A BBC Radio 4 Good Read
Disgrace :A BBC Radio 4 Good Read
paperback
Published:
20 December, 0405
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Description
**A BBC RADIO 4 GOOD READ**
'A great novel by one of the finest authors writing in the English language today' The Times
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.
**A BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS BIG JUBILEE READ PICK**
**One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**
Prizes
Winner of Booker Prize 1999,Winner of Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book 2000,Winner of Nobel Prize 2003
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780099289524 |
| ISBN10 | 0099289520 |
| Number Of Pages | 224 |
| Item Weight | 164 g |
| Product Dimensions | 129 x 197 x 17 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Vintage Publishing |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
What is remarkable about Coetzee’s vision as a novelist is that it remains intensely human, rooted in common experience and replete with failure, doubt and frustration * Guardian *
Exhilarating... One of the best novelists alive * Sunday Times *
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Author's Bio
J.M. Coetzee's work includes Waiting for the Barbarians, Life & Times of Michael K, Boyhood, Youth, Disgrace, Summertime, The Childhood of Jesus and, most recently, The Schooldays of Jesus. He was the first author to win the Booker Prize twice and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003.