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DISGRACE
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| By: |
J. M. Coetzee |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0099289520 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780099289524 |
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| Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
6 April, 2000 |
| Pages: |
224 |
| Description: |
A divorced, middle-aged English professor finds himself increasingly unable to resist affairs with his female students. When discovered by the college authorities he is expected to apologize to save his job, but instead he refuses and resigns, retiring to live with his daughter on her remote farm. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Vintage |
| Prizes: |
Winner of The Commonwealth Writers Prize 2000
Winner of Booker Prize for Fiction 1999
Short-listed for Best of the Booker 2008
Short-listed for WH Smith Literary Prize 2000
Short-listed for WH Smith Annual Literary Award 2000 |
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