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Book SynopsisJ.M. Coetzee's work includes
Waiting for the Barbarians,
Life & Times of Michael K,
Boyhood,
Youth,
Disgrace,
Summertime,
The Childhood of Jesus and, most recently,
The Schooldays of Jesus. He was the first author to win the Booker Prize twice and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003.
Trade ReviewWonderful stuff. But then, Coetzee is wonderful: edgy, black, remorselessly human, witty, and often outright funny...
Summertime is offbeat and deliberate, elusive and truthful * Irish Times *
The cumulative effect of Coetzee's unblinking honesty and his never-wavering seriousness is an understanding of the creation of a great writer * Sunday Telegraph *
A subtle, allusive meditation: an intriguing map of a weak character's constricted heart struggling against the undertow of suspicion within South Africa's claustrophobic, unpoetic, overtly macho society * Financial Times *
A poignant, cubistic portrait...It is not essential, however, that one know anything of
Boyhood, Youth, or his other works to appreciate its rich offerings as an imaginatively distorted and distorting portrait of the artist as outsider * TLS *
Compelling, funny, moving and full of life * Observer *
