Summertime / J. M. Coetzee
- Bib ID:
- 7287502
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Coetzee, J. M., 1940-, author
- Online Access:
- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
- Related Online Resources:
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- Access Conditions:
- National edeposit: Available onsite at national, state and territory libraries
- Description:
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- North Sydney, NSW : Random House Australia, 2010
- ©2009
- 1 online resource (272 pages).
- ISBN:
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- 1742741207 (EPUB : :)
- 9781742741208 (EPUB : :)
- Invalid ISBN:
- 9781742741215 (kindle)
- Series:
- Scenes from provincial life ; bk. 3
- Summary:
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A rich, funny, and deeply affecting autobiographical novel from one of the world's greatest living writers. A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. He plans to focus on the years from 1972-1977 when Coetzee, in his thirties, is sharing a run-down cottage in the suburbs of Cape Town with his widowed father. This, the biographer senses, is the period when he was 'finding his feet as a writer'. Never having met Coetzee, he embarks on a series of interviews with people who were important to him - a married woman with whom he had an affair, his favourite cousin Margot, a Brazilian dancer whose daughter had English lessons with him, former friends and colleagues. From their testimony emerges a portrait of the young Coetzee as an awkward, bookish individual with little talent for opening himself to others. Within the family he is regarded as an outsider, someone who tried to flee the tribe and has now returned, chastened. His insistence on doing manual work, his long hair and beard, rumours that he writes poetry evoke nothing but suspicion in the South Africa of the time.
- Biography/History:
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Fictionalized memoir.
- Notes:
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- First published in Australia by Knopf in 2009 ; This edition published by Vintage in 2010.
- Imprint: RHA eBooks Adult.
- Sequel to: "Boyhood" and "Youth".
- Audience: General.
- Subject:
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- Coetzee, J. M., 1940- -- Fiction
- Coetzee, J. M., 1940-
- Authors -- Fiction
- Authors, South African -- 20th century -- Biography -- Fiction
- Autobiographical fiction
- Novelists, South African -- 20th century -- Biography -- Fiction
- South Africans -- England -- Fiction
- Authors
- Fiction - General
- Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
- Novelists, South African
- South Africans
- England
- Australian
- Copyright Information:
- Copyright © J.M. Coetzee 2009
- Copyright:
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Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2009
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