Foe / J.M. Coetzee
- Bib ID:
- 8076692
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Coetzee, J. M.h, 1940-, author
- Description:
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- Melbourne, Victoria : Text Publishing, 2019
- ©1986
- xii, 148 pages ; 20 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9781922268105 (paperback)
- Summary:
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In a world of chance is there a better and a worse? We yield to a stranger's embrace or give ourselves to the waves; for the blink of an eyelid our vigilance relaxes; we are asleep; and when we awake, we have lost the direction of our lives. In this extraordinary novel J. M. Coetzee asks his readers to re-imagine Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. It is the early 1700s. A young woman, Susan Barton, washes ashore on a remote island, populated only by Cruso and Friday, his mute slave. It will finally fall to Barton, having been rescued, to tell their tale of survival-but in order to do that she must grapple with the nature of storytelling itself.
- Notes:
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- First published in Great Britain by Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, 1986.
- Introduced by Peter Goldsworthy.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Goldsworthy, Peter, writer of introduction
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
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- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2019
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