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An edition of Foe (1986)

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With the same electrical intensity of language and insight that he brought to Waiting for the Barbarians , J.M. Coetzee reinvents the story of Robinson Crusoe—and in so doing, directs our attention to the seduction and tyranny of storytelling itself.

In 1720 the eminent man of letters Daniel Foe is approached by Susan Barton, lately a castaway on a desert island. She wants him to tell her story, and that of the enigmatic man who has become her rescuer, companion, master, and sometimes lover: Cruso. Cruso is dead, and his manservant, Friday, is incapable of speech. As she tries to relate the truth about him, the ambitious Barton cannot help turning Cruso into her invention. For as narrated by Foe—as by Coetzee himself—the stories we thought we knew acquire depths that are at once treacherous, elegant, and unexpectedly moving.

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literary fiction, historical fiction, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, general, Parodies, imitations, Survival, Fiction, World literature, Fiction subjects, Parodie
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Copyright Date
1986

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Dewey Decimal Class
823
Library of Congress
PR9369.3.C58 F6 1987b, PR9369.3.C58F6 1987

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Paperback
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157 p.
Number of pages
157

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OL2383150M
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014009623X
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9780140096231
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87011913
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917226337, 15792109
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69145
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While marooned on an island in the Atlantic, Sue Barton finds herself a character in a fiction novel. She spends a year with two other castaways, a mute Negro called Friday and Robinson Cruso.

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