Disgrace: A BBC Radio 4 Good Read

Disgrace: A BBC Radio 4 Good Read

by J.M.Coetzee (Author), J.M. Coetzee (Author)

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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Format: paperback
Publisher: Vintage
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ISBN 10: 0099289520
ISBN 13: 9780099289524
Book Overview: Winner of the 1999 Booker Prize
Prizes: Winner of The Commonwealth Writers Prize 2000 and Booker Prize for Fiction 1999. Shortlisted for Best of the Booker 2008 and WH Smith Literary Prize 2000 and WH Smith Annual Literary Award 2000.

Media Reviews
What is remarkable about Coetzee's vision as a novelist is that it remains intensely human, rooted in common experience and replete with failure, doubt and frustration * Guardian *
Exhilarating... One of the best novelists alive * Sunday Times *
Author Bio
J.M. Coetzee's work includes Waiting for the Barbarians, Life & Times of Michael K, Boyhood, Youth, Disgrace, Summertime, The Childhood of Jesus and, most recently, The Schooldays of Jesus. He was the first author to win the Booker Prize twice and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003.