Summertime Scenes from Provincial Life

A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. He plans to focus on a period in the seventies when, the biographer senses, Coetzee was 'finding his feet as a writer'. He embarks on a series of interviews with people who were important to Coetzee - a married woman with whom he had an affair, his favourite cousin Margot, a Brazilian dancer whose daughter had English lessons with him, former friends and colleagues. Thus emerges a portrait of the young Coetzee as an awkward, bookish individual, regarded as an outsider within the family. His insistence on doing manual work, his long hair and beard, and rumours that he writes poetry evoke nothing but suspicion in the South Africa of the time.

ISBN:	9780099540540
Publisher:	Random House
Imprint:	Vintage
Published date:	02 Sep 2010
DEWEY:	823.914
DEWEY edition:	22
Language:	English
Number of pages:	266
Weight:	200g
Height:	198mm
Width:	133mm
Spine width:	18mm

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