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Disgrace

by J.M. Coetzee

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Originally published by Harvill Secker

The provocative Booker Prize winning novel from Nobel laureate, J.M. Coetzee "Compulsively readable... A novel that not only works its spell but makes it impossible for us to lay it aside once we've finished reading it." —The New Yorker At fifty-two, Professor David Lurie is divorced, filled with desire, but lacking in passion. When an affair with a student leaves him jobless, shunned by friends, and ridiculed by his ex-wife, he retreats to his daughter Lucy's smallholding. David's visit becomes...

First published 1999228 pages
823
Category
Literature
Priority
Must-Read
Author works
4
Editions known
56
Classification
Dewey (DDC)
823823.914823.3
Library of Congress (LCC)
PR9369.30000000.C58 D5 2000bPR9369.30000000.C58 D5812 2002PR9369.30000000.C58 D5 1999PR9369.30000000.C58 D5 1999b
Subjects
Chang pian xiao shuoDomestic fictionEnglish literatureFarm lifeFarm life in fictionFathers and daughtersFathers and daughters in fictionFathers and daughters, fictionFictionFiction (fictional works by one author)Fiction in SpanishFiction, general
This edition
ISBN 9781524705466English
DATE DUE
First published1999
Booker Prize1999
Film adaptation2008
StatusREAD

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  • FilmDisgrace (2008)

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