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Elizabeth Costello

Fiction

Fiction

By J. M. Coetzee

By J. M. Coetzee

By J. M. Coetzee

By J. M. Coetzee

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Oct 26, 2004 | ISBN 9780142004814

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Mar 07, 2017 | ISBN 9781524705503

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    About Elizabeth Costello

    J.M. Coetzee’s latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018. 

    Since 1982, J. M. Coetzee has been dazzling the literary world. After eight novels that have won, among other awards, two Booker Prizes, and most recently, the Nobel Prize, Coetzee has once again crafted an unusual and deeply affecting tale. Told through an ingenious series of formal addresses, Elizabeth Costello is, on the 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.

    About Elizabeth Costello

    J.M. Coetzee’s latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018. 

    Since 1982, J. M. Coetzee has been dazzling the literary world. After eight novels that have won, among other awards, two Booker Prizes, and most recently, the Nobel Prize, Coetzee has once again crafted an unusual and deeply affecting tale. Told through an ingenious series of formal addresses, Elizabeth Costello is, on the 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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    Also by J. M. Coetzee

    The Death of Jesus
    Late Essays
    The Schooldays of Jesus
    The Good Story
    The Childhood of Jesus
    See all books by J. M. Coetzee

    About J. M. Coetzee

    Born in Cape Town, South Africa, on February 9, 1940, J. M. Coetzee studied first at Cape Town and later at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned a PhD degree in literature. In 1972, he returned to South Africa… More about J. M. Coetzee

    About J. M. Coetzee

    Born in Cape Town, South Africa, on February 9, 1940, J. M. Coetzee studied first at Cape Town and later at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned a PhD degree in literature. In 1972, he returned to South Africa… More about J. M. Coetzee

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction

    Paperback | $16.00
    Published by Penguin Books
    Oct 26, 2004 | 240 Pages | 5-1/16 x 7-3/4 | ISBN 9780142004814

    Category: Literary Fiction | Historical Fiction

    Ebook | $11.99
    Published by Penguin Books
    Mar 07, 2017 | 240 Pages | ISBN 9781524705503

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    [Elizabeth Costello] resonates in the mind long after it has been put aside. (John Banville, The Nation)

    Awards

    New York Times Notable Book WINNER

    Nobel Prize in Literature WINNER

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