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Age of Iron

by J.M. Coetzee

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A novel by the Booker Prize winning author of "Life & Time of Michael K", "Foe", and "Waiting For The Barbarians". In Cape Town, South Africa, an old woman is dying of cancer. A classics professor, Mrs. Curren has been opposed to the lies and brutality of apartheid all her life, but has lived insulated from its true horrors. Now she is suddenly forced to come to terms with the iron-hearted rage that the system has wrought. In an extended letter addressed to her daughter, who has long since fled to America, Mrs. Curren recounts the strange events of her dying days. She witnesses the burning of a nearby black township and discovers the bullet-riddled body of her servant's son. A teenage black activist hiding in her house is killed by security forces. And through it all, her only companion, the only person to whom she can confess her mounting anger and despair, is a homeless man, an alcoholic, who one day appears on her doorstep. Brilliantly crafted and resonant with metaphor, Age of Iron is "a superbly realized novel whose truths cut to the bone." (The New York Times Book Review)..

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Age of Iron is a 1990 novel by South African Nobel Prize winner J. M. Coetzee. It is among his most popular works and was the 1990 Sunday Express Book of the Year. In it, he paints a picture of social and political tragedy unfolding in a country ravaged by racism and violence.

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Bookseller's Inventory #
#2218-21019
Title
Age of Iron
Author
J.M. Coetzee
Book Condition
New As New in like DJ, As Shown
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As New
Quantity Available
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Edition
1st American Edition
Binding
Hardcover
Publisher
Random House
Place of Publication
New York, NY
Date Published
1990
Pages
198
Weight
0.00 lbs
Keywords
Historical Fiction

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