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Disgrace
by Coetzee, J. M
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- VG++/VG++/ND
- ISBN 10
- 0099284820
- ISBN 13
- 9780099284826
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st. Full Number Line.* Date of Publication: 2000* Publisher: Vintage.* Binding and cover condition: Colour photo-illustrated soft card covers. No bumps or rubs. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. No creases to spine or hinge. Seems little used if at all. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. Very slight colouration to page edges. VG++* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 220 pp. text.* Product 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 apologise and repent in an effort to save his job, but he refuses to become a scapegoat in what he see as as a show trial designed to reinforce a stringent political correctness. He pre-empts the authorities and leaves his job, and the city, to spend time with his grown-up lesbian daughter on her remote farm. In spectacularly powerful and lucid prose, Coetzee uses all his formidable skills to engage with a post-apartheid culture in unexpected and revealing ways. This examination into the sexual and political lawlessness of modern South Africa as it tries desperately to start a fresh page in its history is chilling, uncompromising and unforgettable.* This is a NEAR FINE copy of the 1st./1st. FNL with minimal age & shelf wear reducing it to VG++.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 944
- Title
- Disgrace
- Author
- Coetzee, J. M
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - VG++/VG++/ND
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp. FNL.
- ISBN 10
- 0099284820
- ISBN 13
- 9780099284826
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Place of Publication
- London UK 220
- Date Published
- 2000-04-06
- Size
- 11 x 1.4 x 17.8 cm
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