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Disgrace

J.M. Coetzee

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Disgrace

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  • Booker Prize (1999)
  • National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (1999)
  • Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book Overall (2000)
  • The Best of the Booker Nominee (2008)
  • Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2001)
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Disgrace

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ISBN: 9780099289524
Author: J.M. Coetzee
Publisher: Vintage Books
Date of Publication: 2003-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Contemporary, Literary Fiction
Related Topics: Literature, Classics
Goodreads rating: 3.85
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Description

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.
 

  • Booker Prize (1999)
  • National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (1999)
  • Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book Overall (2000)
  • The Best of the Booker Nominee (2008)
  • Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2001)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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