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'A great novel by one of the finest authors writing in the English language today' The Times

After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student.



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Disgrace

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    A Paperback / softback by J.M. Coetzee

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Vintage
      Published 6 April 2000
      ISBN-13 9780099289524
      978-0099289524
      ISBN-10 0099289520
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      'A great novel by one of the finest authors writing in the English language today' The Times

      After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student.



      Trade Review
      What is remarkable about Coetzee’s vision as a novelist is that it remains intensely human, rooted in common experience and replete with failure, doubt and frustration * Guardian *
      Exhilarating... One of the best novelists alive * Sunday Times *

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