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Summertime (Import)

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An edition of Summertime (2009)

Summertime (Import)

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A rich, funny, and deeply affecting autobiographical new novel from one of the world's greatest living writers.A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. He plans to focus on the years from 1972–1977 when Coetzee, in his thirties, is sharing a run-down cottage in the suburbs of Cape Town with his widowed father. This, the biographer senses, is the period when he was 'finding his feet as a writer'.Never having met Coetzee, he embarks on a series of interviews with people who were important to him – a married woman with whom he had an affair, his favourite cousin Margot, a Brazilian dancer whose daughter had English lessons with him, former friends and colleagues. From their testimony emerges a portrait of the young Coetzee as an awkward, bookish individual with little talent for opening himself to others. Within the family he is regarded as an outsider, someone who tried to flee the tribe and has now returned, chastened. His insistence on doing manual work, his long hair and beard, rumours that he writes poetry evoke nothing but suspicion in the South Africa of the time.Sometimes heartbreaking, often very funny, Summertime shows us a great writer as he limbers up for his task. It completes the majestic trilogy of fictionalised memoir begun with Boyhood and Youth.

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Publisher
Harvill Secker
Pages
272

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October 26, 2010, Vintage Books
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2010, Vintage Books
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Summertime
2010, Center Point Pub.
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Summertime
2009, Random House Australia
in English
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September 14, 2009, Harvill Secker
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Summertime
2009, W F Howes Ltd
in English

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Library of Congress
PR9369.3.C58, PR9369.3.C58 S86 2009

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Number of pages
272
Dimensions
8.5 x 5.4 x 1.3 inches
Weight
15.5 ounces

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24087490M
Internet Archive
summertimescenes0000coet
ISBN 10
1846553180
ISBN 13
9781846553189
OCLC/WorldCat
373483224

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