Disgrace | J. M. Coetzee

Author: J. M. Coetzee
Publisher: Secker and Warburg (1999)
Edition: True First Edition. Biddles Printing.
ISBN-10: 0436204894
ISBN-13: 9780436204890
Condition: Very Good
Binding: Hardcover with dust jacket
Pages: 220
Dimensions: 22.2 x 14 x 2 cm
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by J. M. Coetzee (First Edition)
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A true first edition of J.M. Coetzee's Booker prize-winning novel, Disgrace.

David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, is a scholar fallen into disgrace. After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, he has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry - willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressure to repent publicly, he resigns and retreats to an isolated smallholding owned by his daughter Lucy.

For a time, his daughter's influence and the natural rhythms of the farm promise to harmonise his discordant life. He helps with the dogs in the kennels, takes produce to market, and assists with treating injured animals at a nearby refuge. But the balance of power in the country is shifting. He and Lucy become victims of a savage and disturbing attack which brings into relief all the fault-lines in their relationship.