Summertime

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: Knopf
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2009
Edition: Reprint

Description: 266 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout. The only exception is some light tanning to pages.

Publishers Description: 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 todays most esteemed writers.

ISBN: 9781741669022