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Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee






Disgrace

by J.M. Coetzee
Penguin USA; October 2000

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Disgrace is J.M. Coetzee's Booker Prize winning novel. Disgrace is a story of shame and about the uncertainties of the new South Africa. The prose is spare and the narrative disturbing in this story about a college professor and his adult daughter whose lives undergo painful changes.

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Links for this book:
Book Reviews by Anne Ku
Nicholas Mosley

Also by this author:
Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life; Penguin Putman Inc.; August 1998

Waiting for the Barbarians;
Viking Penguin; April 1982

In the Heart of the Country;
Pengiun Books USA, Incorporated; October 1982

Age of Iron;
Viking Penguin; August 1998

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