Slow Man
by J. M. Coetzee
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A masterful new novel from one of the greatest writers alive.
Paul Rayment is on the threshold of a comfortable old age when a calamitous cycling accident results in the amputation of a leg. Humiliated, his body truncated, his life circumscribed, he turns away from his friends.
He hires a nurse named Marijana, with whom he has a European childhood in common: hers in Croatia, his in France. Tactfully and efficiently she ministers to his needs. But his feelings for her, and for her handsome teenage son, are complicated by the sudden arrival on his doorstep of the celebrated Australian novelist Elizabeth Costello, who threatens to take over the direction of his life and the affairs of his heart.
Unflinching in its vision of suffering and generous in its portrayal of the spirit of care, Slow Man is a masterful work of fiction by one of the world’s greatest writers.
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Amputees, Fiction, Nurse and patient, Australian Women novelists, Women novelists, Fiction, general, Radfahrerunfall, Altern, Krankenschwester, Deutsch, Beinamputation, Englisch, Roman, Belletristische Darstellung, Hilfebedürftiger, Erotik, Ausgabe, Älterer Mann, Fiction, medical, Australia, fiction, New York Times reviewed, Authors, fiction, Fiction (fictional works by one author)Places
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"THE BLOW CATCHES him from the right, sharp and surprising and painful, like a bolt of electricity, lifting him up off the bicycle."
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| December 7, 2010 | Edited by WorkBot | merge works |
| October 31, 2010 | Edited by Prajña | merge authors |
| August 12, 2010 | Edited by IdentifierBot | added LibraryThing ID |
| April 24, 2010 | Edited by Open Library Bot | Fixed duplicate goodreads IDs. |
| April 30, 2008 | Created by an anonymous user | Imported from amazon.com record. |