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Beautifully repackaged at a fantastic price for the limited print run Vintage Booker promotion 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 commitee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressue to repent publicly, he resigns and retreats to his daughter Lucy's isolated small holding. For a time, his daughter's influence and 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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Disgrace, J. M. Coetzee
- Language
- Released
- 1999
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- Title
- Disgrace
- Language
- English
- Authors
- J. M. Coetzee
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Released
- 1999
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN10
- 0099535149
- ISBN13
- 9780099535140
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Family, Contemporary Fiction, Classics, Society, Sexuality & Intimacy, English Literature, Africa, Adapted for Film, Violence, Race, Racism, University, College, Struggle for Power, Present, Teachers, Rape, Thefts and Robberies, Farms, Homesteads, Daughters, South Africa, Unhappy Love, Apartheid, Booker Prize, Cape Town, South African Literature, University Novel
- First published
- 1999
- Original title
- Disgrace
- Rating
- 3.75 out of 5
- Description
- Beautifully repackaged at a fantastic price for the limited print run Vintage Booker promotion 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 commitee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressue to repent publicly, he resigns and retreats to his daughter Lucy's isolated small holding. For a time, his daughter's influence and 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.