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Genre/Form: | Historical fiction Bildungsromans Fiction |
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Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
J M Coetzee |
ISBN: | 067003102X 9780670031023 0142002003 9780142002001 |
OCLC Number: | 49320413 |
Awards: | Winner of Nobel Prize in Literature. |
Description: | 169 pages ; 22 cm |
Responsibility: | J.M. Coetzee. |
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Abstract:
Hoping to escape his South African home, dysfunctional family, and what he believes to be an impending revolution, a young man becomes disappointed with his monotonous new life in London and begins a dark pilgrimage.

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"A delight to read: it will make you angry, amused, scornful and sympathetic by turns." (San Francisco Chronicle)"Coetzee makes a book of melancholy beauty and quiet force." (Vince Passaro, O Magazine) Read more...
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- South Africans -- England -- Fiction.
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