Disgrace
Coetzee, J.M.
Disgrace - New York: Penguin Books, 2008. - 220p.: pbk.: 20 cm.
After years teaching Romantic poetry in Cape Town, David Lurie 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 his daughter Lucy’s isolated smallholding. For a time, his daughter’s influence and the natural rhythms of the farm promise to harmonise his discordant life. 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 faultlines in their relationship.
9780143115281
Classical Fiction
Australian Fiction
Adultery
Booker Prize (Winner)
College Teacher
823.914 COE
Disgrace - New York: Penguin Books, 2008. - 220p.: pbk.: 20 cm.
After years teaching Romantic poetry in Cape Town, David Lurie 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 his daughter Lucy’s isolated smallholding. For a time, his daughter’s influence and the natural rhythms of the farm promise to harmonise his discordant life. 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 faultlines in their relationship.
9780143115281
Classical Fiction
Australian Fiction
Adultery
Booker Prize (Winner)
College Teacher
823.914 COE
