Disgrace: A NovelThe provocative Booker Prize winning novel from Nobel laureate, J.M. Coetzee "Compulsively readable... A novel that not only works its spell but makes it impossible for us to lay it aside once we've finished reading it." —The New Yorker At fifty-two, Professor David Lurie is divorced, filled with desire, but lacking in passion. When an affair with a student leaves him jobless, shunned by friends, and ridiculed by his ex-wife, he retreats to his daughter Lucy's smallholding. David's visit becomes an extended stay as he attempts to find meaning in his one remaining relationship. Instead, an incident of unimaginable terror and violence forces father and daughter to confront their strained relationship and the equallity complicated racial complexities of the new South Africa. 2024 marks the 25th Anniversary of the publication of Disgrace |
Contents
Section 1 | 1 |
Section 2 | 11 |
Section 3 | 18 |
Section 4 | 29 |
Section 5 | 36 |
Section 6 | 47 |
Section 7 | 59 |
Section 8 | 68 |
Section 13 | 113 |
Section 14 | 123 |
Section 15 | 136 |
Section 16 | 147 |
Section 17 | 151 |
Section 18 | 163 |
Section 19 | 175 |
Section 20 | 187 |
Section 9 | 80 |
Section 10 | 88 |
Section 11 | 100 |
Section 12 | 106 |
Section 21 | 196 |
Section 22 | 206 |
Section 23 | 213 |
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References to this book
Integrity and the Fragile Self Damian Cox,Marguerite La Caze,Michael P. Levine No preview available - 2003 |