Elizabeth Costello
by J. M. Coetzee
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Elizabeth Costello is a distinguished and aging Australian novelist whose life is revealed through a series of eight formal addresses. From an award-acceptance speech at a New England liberal arts college to a lecture on evil in Amsterdam and a sexually charged reading by the poet Robert Duncan, the author draws the reader toward its astonishing conclusion. The novel is, on its surface, the story of a woman's life as mother, sister, lover, and writer. Yet it is also a profound and haunting meditation on the nature of storytelling.
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Elizabeth Costello: Acht Lehrstücke
Jan 01, 2006, FISCHER Taschenbuch
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Elizabeth Costello
2004, Random House Australia, Random House - Australia
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Elizabeth Costello
March 31, 2004, Grijalbo Mondadori Sa
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Elizabeth Costello 12-copy floor
October 26, 2004, Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Elizabeth Costello: eight lessons
2004, W.F. Howes
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"THERE lS FIRST of all the problem of the opening, namely, how to get us from where we are, which is, as yet, nowhere, to the far bank."
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