Summertime : fiction
Record details
- ISBN: 0143118455
- ISBN: 9780143118459
- ISBN: 0143118455 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780143118459 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 0670021385
- ISBN: 9780670021383
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Physical Description:
266 p. ; 22 cm.
print - Edition: 1st American ed.
- Publisher: New York : Viking, 2009.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Sequel to: Boyhood, and Youth. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Notebooks 1972-75 -- Julia -- Margot -- Adriana -- Martin -- Sophie -- Notebooks: undated fragments. |
Summary, etc.: | In this autobiographical novel, a young English biographer is researching a book about the late South African writer John Coetzee, focusing on Coetzee in his thirties, at a time when he was living in a rundown cottage in the Cape Town suburbs with his widowed father--a time, the biographer is convinced, when Coetzee was finding himself as a writer. |
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Subject: | Authors Fiction |
Genre: | Autobiographical fiction. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Beekley Community Library - New Hartford | F COETZEE, J. (Text) | 32544073209263 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Brookfield Library | F/COETZEE (Text) | 34029117409671 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Burnham Library - Bridgewater | FIC COETZEE (Text) | 36937002111392 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
C.H. Booth Library - Newtown | FIC COETZEE (Text) | 34014117972647 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Derby Neck Library | FIC COE (Text) | 34046119383993 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Derby Public Library | FIC COE (Text) | 34047117501081 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Douglas Library of Hebron | FIC COE (Text) | 33400000669492 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Gunn Memorial Library - Washington | FIC COE (Text) | 34055117158521 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Jonathan Trumbull Library - Lebanon | FIC COE Scenes from Prov. Life Bk. 3 (Text) | 33430000715896 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Kent Library Association - Kent | F COE (Text) | 33410114519095 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Summertime
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Summary
Summertime
Shortlisted for the 2009 Man Booker Prize A brilliant new work of fiction from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Disgrace and Diary of a Bad Year A young English biographer is researching a book about the late South African writer John Coetzee, focusing on Coetzee in his thirties, at a time when he was living in a rundown cottage in the Cape Town suburbs with his widowed father-a time, the biographer is convinced, when Coetzee was finding himself as a writer. Never having met the man himself, the biographer interviews five people who knew Coetzee well, including a married woman with whom he had an affair, his cousin Margot, and a Brazilian dancer whose daughter took English lessons with him. These accounts add up to an image of an awkward, reserved, and bookish young man who finds it hard to make meaningful connections with the people around him. Summertime is an inventive and inspired work of fiction that allows J.M. Coetzee to imagine his own life with a critical and unsparing eye, revealing painful moral struggles and attempts to come to grips with what it means to care for another human being. Incisive, elegant, and often surprisingly funny, Summertime is a compelling work by one of today's most esteemed writers.