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 - 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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User Review - Dreesie - LibraryThingA fascinating look at storytelling--approached through another author's story. Coetzee introduces Susan Barton, lately a female castaway, as she approaches the author Foe to tell the story of herself ... 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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