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Item Details
Title:
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DISGRACE
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By: |
J. M. Coetzee |
Format: |
Electronic book text |
List price:
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£8.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
1409027279 |
ISBN 13: |
9781409027270 |
Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
Pub. date: |
28 May, 2015 |
Pages: |
224 |
Description: |
A divorced, middle-aged English professor finds himself unable to resist affairs with his female students. When discovered by the college authorities, he is expected to apologise and repent in an effort to save his job, but he refuses to become a scapegoat in what he see as a show trial designed to reinforce a stringent political correctness. |
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. |
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UK |
Imprint: |
Vintage Digital |
Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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