Description
ISBN: 0436204894
Title: Disgrace
Author: Coetzee, J. M.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Secker & Warburg, London
Publication Date: 1999
Edition: First Edition
Book Condition: F
D-j Condition: F
Synopsis: Set in post-apartheid South Africa, J. M. Coetzee’s searing novel tells the story of David Lurie, a twice divorced, 52-year-old professor of communications and Romantic Poetry at Cape Technical University. Lurie believes he has created a comfortable, if somewhat passionless, life for himself. He lives within his financial and emotional means. Though his position at the university has been reduced, he teaches his classes dutifully; and while age has diminished his attractiveness, weekly visits to a prostitute satisfy his sexual needs. He considers himself happy. But when Lurie seduces one of his students, he sets in motion a chain of events that will shatter his complacency and leave him utterly disgraced.
