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Slow Man
by J. M. Coetzee
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good (ex-library)/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 1741660688
- ISBN 13
- 9781741660685
- Seller
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Traralgon, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Random House, Australia, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Good (ex-library)/Very Good. Hardcover. 263 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Random House, Australia, 2005. First Edition. This is the first Australian edition. *** CONDITION: The book itself is in good (ex-library) condition and comes in very good dust jacket. More specifically: Ex-library with usual marks, stamps, stickers. Edges of boards have moderate wear. Spine has minor lean. Dust jacket has light creasing. . Dust jacket is protected in clear, plastic sleeve. Pages are reasonably tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Paul Rayment is on the threshold of a comfortable old age when a calamitous cycling accident results in the amputation of a leg. Humiliated, his body truncated, his life circumscribed, he turns away from his friends. He hires a nurse named Marijana, with whom he has a European childhood in common: hers in Croatia, his in France. Tactfully and efficiently she ministers to his needs. But his feelings for her, and for her handsome teenage son, are complicated by the sudden arrival on his doorstep of the celebrated Australian novelist Elizabeth Costello, who threatens to take over the direction of his life and the affairs of his heart. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die; ISBN: 1741660688. ISBN/EAN: 9781741660685. Inventory No: 13110312.. 9781741660685
Synopsis
Slow Man is a 2005 novel by South African/Australian author J. M. Coetzee, and concerns a man who must learn to adapt after losing a leg in a road accident. The novel has many varied themes, including the nature of care, the relationship between an author and his characters, and man's drive to leave a legacy. It is Coetzee's first novel since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003.
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Details
- Seller
- Manyhills Books
(AU)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 13110312
- Title
- Slow Man
- Author
- J. M. Coetzee
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good (ex-library)
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1741660688
- ISBN 13
- 9781741660685
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- Australia
- Date Published
- 2005
- Keywords
- BZDB5 Fiction; Slow Man
- Bookseller catalogs
- 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die; Fiction;
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Traralgon, Victoria
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