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Stranger Shores
Literary Essays, 1986-1999
by J. M. Coetzee
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Coetzee's book of essays, covering the end of the 20th century, includes his thoughts on writers such as Defoe, Turgenev, Kafka, Borges, Rushdie, Gordimer, Lessing, and Mahfouz, as well as his answer to the question of what makes a work of literature a classic. Many of the essays were first published in the New York Review of Books.
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9780670899821,
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Penguin USA,
2001
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9780142001370,
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Penguin Group USA,
2002
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Publisher Notes
An extraordinary anthology of literary essays by the Booker Prize-winning author of In the Heart of the Country presents twenty-six pieces on books and writing, including "What is a Classic?" and studies of Daniel Defoe, Ivan Turgenev, Kafka, Joseph Brodsky, Salman Rushdie, Nadine Gordimer, and other notable authors. Reprint.
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"A striking collection...Deeply intelligent, provocative, and enjoyable literary investigations."
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