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An edition of Disgrace (1999)

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David Lurie is a scholar fallen into disgrace. After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, he has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to repent publicly, he resigns and retreats to an isolated smallholding owned by his daughter Lucy. For a time, his daughter's influence and the natural rhythms of the farm promise to harmonise his discordant life. He helps with the dogs in the kennels, takes produce to market, and assists with treating injured animals at a nearby refuge. But the balance of power in the country is shifting. He and Lucy become victims of a savage attack which brings into relief all the faultlines in their relationship.

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abortion, euthanasia, animal shelters, agoraphobia, Domestic fiction, Farm life, Farm life in fiction, Fathers and daughters, Fathers and daughters in fiction, Fiction, Fiction in Spanish, Man Booker Prize Winner, Political correctness, Political correctness in fiction, Politics and government, South Africa in fiction, Teacher-student relationships, Teacher-student relationships in fiction, Veterinarians, Veterinarians in fiction, award:man_booker_prize=1999, rape, Large type books, South africa, fiction, Fiction (fictional works by one author), Veterinarians, fiction, Fathers and daughters, fiction, Chang pian xiao shuo, Fiction, general, Fiction, psychological, Powieść południowo-afrykańska w języku angielskim, Tłumaczenia polskie, English literature

People

David Lurie, Lucy Lurie, Bev Shaw, Petrus, Pollux, Melanie Isaacs

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South Africa, Cape Town, Eastern Cape, nan fei

Times

1994-, xian dai
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Genre
Fiction.
Copyright Date
1999

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.914
Library of Congress
PR9369.3.C58 D5 2000b

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Format
Paperback
Pagination
295 p. (large print) ;
Number of pages
295

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6778190M
Internet Archive
disgrace0000coet_s3a8
ISBN 10
0786224797
ISBN 13
9780786224791
LCCN
00020642
OCLC/WorldCat
1037231635
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62037970

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At fifty-two, Professor David Lurie is divorced, filled with desire, but lacking in passion. An affair with one of his students leaves him jobless, shunned by his friends, and ridiculed by his ex-wife. He retreats to his daughter Lucy's isolated smallholding, where a brief visit becomes an extended stay as he tries to find meaning from the one remaining relationship. David attempts to relate to Lucy and to a society with new racial complexities are disrupted by an afternoon of violence that shakes all of his beliefs and threatens to destroy his daughter. In this wry, visceral, yet strangely tender novel, Coetzee once again tells "truths [that] cut to the bone" (The New York Times Book Review).

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For a man of his age, fifty-two, divorced, he has, to his mind, solved the problem of sex rather well.
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