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Summertime
J. M. Coetzee
其他書名
Fiction
出版
Penguin Publishing Group
, 2010-10-26
主題
Fiction / Literary
ISBN
0143118455
9780143118459
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=AamMEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
"Not since
Disgrace
, has he written with such urgency and feeling." -
The New Yorker
J.M. Coetzee's latest novel,
The Schooldays of Jesus
, is now available from Viking.
Late Essays: 2006-2016
will be available January 2018.
Nobel Prize-winning author J. M. Coetzee's new book follows a young biographer as he works on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. The biographer embarks on a series of interviews with people who were important to Coetzee during the period when he was "finding his feet as a writer"-in his thirties and sharing a run-down cottage in the suburbs of Cape Town with his widowed father. Their testimonies create an image of an awkward, reserved, and bookish young man who finds it difficult to connect with the people around him. An innovative and inspired work of fiction-incisive, elegant, and often surprisingly funny-
Summertime
allows one of the most revered writers of our time to imagine his own life with a critical and unsparing eye.