Elizabeth Costello
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In 1982, J. M. Coetzee dazzled the literary world with his novel Waiting for the Barbarians. Five novels and two Booker prizes later, Coetzee is a writer of international stature. Now, in his first work of fiction since the New York Times bestselling...
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- ISBN13 9780099461920
- ISBN10 0099461927
- Tipo LIBRO
- Páginas 230
- Año de Edición 2004
- Idioma Inglés
- Encuadernación Rústica
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Literatura InglesaElizabeth Costello
Editorial VINTAGE BOOKS
In 1982, J. M. Coetzee dazzled the literary world with his novel Waiting for the Barbarians. Five novels and two Booker prizes later, Coetzee is a writer of international stature. Now, in his first work of fiction since the New York Times bestselling...
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In 1982, J. M. Coetzee dazzled the literary world with his novel Waiting for the Barbarians. Five novels and two Booker prizes later, Coetzee is a writer of international stature. Now, in his first work of fiction since the New York Times bestselling Disgrace, he has crafted an unusual and deeply affecting tale. Elizabeth Costello is a distinguished and aging Australian novelist whose life is revealed through an ingenious series of eight formal addresses. From an award-acceptance speech at a New England liberal arts college to a lecture on evil in Amsterdam and a sexually charged reading by the poet Robert Duncan, Coetzee draws the reader inexorably toward its astonishing conclusion. Vividly imagined and masterfully wrought in unerring prose, Elizabeth Costello is, on its surface, the story of a woman's life as mother, sister, lover, and writer. Yet it is also a profound and haunting meditation on the nature of storytelling that only a writer of Coetzee's caliber could accomplish.