Foe -- J.M. Coetzee

Title- Foe 

Author- J.M. Coetzee  

Publisher- Ravan Press

Date- 1986. The South African, and true first edition.

Description- Good condition. No inscriptions

Binding- Hardcover with DJ.

Dust Jacket- Complete but with two large tears repaired with tape

Dimensions- 22.3cm x 14.5cm. 157pp

Author's fifth book. Nobel laureate and two-time Booker prize-winning author J. M. Coetzee re-imagines Daniel Defoe's classic novel Robinson Crusoe. Focused primarily on themes of language and power and told from the perspective of an additional castaway on the island inhabited by "Cruso" and his man, Friday, Foe was the subject of criticism as politically irrelevant upon its release in his native South Africa. Coetzee revisited the composition of Robinson Crusoe in 2003 in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, entitled "He and his Man". "A small miracle of a boo of marvellous intricacy and overwhelming power." -The Washington Post. 

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