Ebook {Epub PDF} Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee

DISGRACE J. M. C o e t z e e s c a n n e d b y h e y s t. ONE FOR A MAN of his age, fifty-two, divorced, he has, to his mind, solved the problem of sex rather well. On Thursday afternoons he drives to Green Point. Punctually at two p.m. he presses the buzzer at theFile Size: KB. Disgrace. J. M. Coetzee. Penguin, - Fiction - pages. 12 Reviews. Set in post-apartheid South Africa, J. M. Coetzee's searing novel tells the story of David Lurie, a twice divorced, year-old professor of communications and Romantic Poetry at Cape Technical University. Lurie believes he has created a comfortable, if somewhat /5(12).  · Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee. Disgrace is a novel by J. M. Coetzee, published in David Lurie is a South African professor of English who loses everything: his reputation, his job, his peace of mind, his dreams of artistic success, and finally even his ability to protect his own daughter/5.

J. M. Coetzee, distinguished South African author and professor of English at the University of Cape Town, is the first writer to win the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction twice. Disgrace was a Booker prize winner in , making JM Coetzee the first writer to win the trophy twice (first with Life Times of Michael K).In , he was also awarded the Nobel prize in. "Disgrace is the best novel Coetzee has written. It is a chilling, spare book, the work of a mature writer who has refined his textual obsessions to produce an exact, effective prose and condensed his thematic concern with authority into a deceptively simple story of family life.

Coetzee has won numerous awards for his novels, including two Booker Prizes (for Life Times of Michael K and Disgrace) and the Nobel Prize in Literature (in ). Coetzee was a vocal denouncer of apartheid in South Africa. DISGRACE J. M. C o e t z e e s c a n n e d b y h e y s t. ONE FOR A MAN of his age, fifty-two, divorced, he has, to his mind, solved the problem of sex rather well. Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee Disgrace is a novel by J. M. Coetzee, published in David Lurie is a South African professor of English who loses everything: his reputation, his job, his peace of mind, his dreams of artistic success, and finally even his ability to protect his own daughter.