FoeWith electrical intensity of language and insight, J.M. Coetzee reinvents the story of Robinson Crusoe - and in so doing, directs our attention to the seduction and tyranny of storytelling itself. The stories we thought we knew acquire depths that are at once treacherous, elegant, and unexpectedly moving. |
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User Review - DeltaQueen50 - LibraryThingIn Foe, J. M. Coetzee delivers a different spin on the Robinson Crusoe story. By adding some new characters and giving the original author, Daniel Defoe a major role, he reworks the story and raises ... Read full review
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User Review - jonfaith - LibraryThingThis review will overflow with cliché. Such is the sum of my experience. Fox is a meditation on silence. Coetzee explores the natural aspects of such. The sea and wilderness yield no ready wisdom ... Read full review
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Foe Popular Penguins Series |
| Author | J. M. Coetzee |
| Publisher | Penguin Books, Limited, 2010 |
| ISBN | 0141399384, 9780141399386 |
| Length | 157 pages |
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