Disgrace (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: J. M. Coetzee
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: The late 1990’s
- Setting: South Africa
- Principal Characters: David Lurie, Melanie Isaacs, Lucy Lurie, Bev Shaw, Petrus
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Teaching or teachers, Dogs, Sex or sexuality, Rape, Sexual harassment, South Africa or South Africans, 1990’s, Euthanasia or right to die
- Locales: South Africa
J. M. Coetzee, distinguished South African author and professor of English at the University of Cape Town, is the first writer to win the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction twice. In 1983, Coetzee received Britain’s highest prize in fiction for his novel Life and Times of Michael K. On October 25, 1999, the announcement was made that he had won an unprecedented second Booker Prize for Disgrace. It is his eighth novel, following a gap of five years since his seventh. During that time he concentrated on nonfiction, including two long lectures in The Lives of...
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