Disgrace

Author: J M Coetzee

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  • : $14.00 NZD
  • : 9780436204890
  • : Secker & Warburg
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  • : 0.374
  • : January 1999
  • : 224mm X 144mm
  • : United Kingdom
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Barcode 9780436204890
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Description

A divorced, middle-aged English professor finds himself increasingly unable to resist affairs with his female students. When discovered by the college authorities he is expected to apologize to save his job, but instead he refuses and resigns, retiring to live with his daughter on her remote farm.

Promotion info

J.M. Coetzee won the Booker Prize in 1983 with "The Life & Times of Michael K."

Awards

Winner of Commonwealth Writers Prize 2000 and Booker Prize for Fiction 1999. Shortlisted for WH Smith Literary Prize 2000 and W H Smith Annual Literary Award 2000 and Best of the Booker 2008.