Author: Coetzee, J. M.
Title: Disgrace: What Is a Mad Heart?
Description: London Vintage, 2009. New ed. Paperback small trade, very good condition, pages faintly toned, minor edgewear. 219 pp. This novel is about a man named David Lurie who has spent years teaching romantic poetry at the technical University of Cape Town. Middle aged and twice divorced, he has an affair with a student. The affair turns sour - he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. He refuses to repent publicly, and resigns and retreats to his daughter Lucy’s isolated farm. He and Lucy become victims of a savage and disturbing attack which brings into relief all the faultlines in their relationship. ISBN: 9780099526834

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