New York, NY, U.S.A.: Viking, 2003. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ELIZABETH COSTELLO is an Australian writer of international renown; she is feted, studied, honoured. Famous principally for an early novel that established her reputation and from which, it seems, she will never escape, she has reached the stage, late in life, where her remaining function is to be venerated and applauded. Coetzee's novel offers us a profound and delicate vision of literary celebrity, artistry and the private life of the mind. J. M.Coetzee is the winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize for Literature for Lifetime Achievement. ELIZABETH COSTELLO is his first novel following his Booker Prize-winning DISGRACE--his second. (He won previously in 1983 for THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MICHAEL K.) As new, first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. [Not remainder-marked or price-clipped] L96/L60

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Elizabeth Costello is a 2003 novel by South African-born Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee. In this novel, Elizabeth Costello, an aging Australian writer, travels around the world and gives lectures on topics including the lives of animals and literary censorship. In her youth, Costello wrote The House on Eccles Street, a novel that re-tells James Joyce's Ulysses from the perspective of the protagonist's wife, Molly Bloom.

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Bookseller: Joe Staats, Bookseller (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 8425
Title: ELIZABETH COSTELLO: Eight Lessons
Author: Coetzee, J. M
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First American Edition 1st Printing
ISBN 10: 0670031305
ISBN 13: 9780670031306
Publisher: Viking
Place of Publication: New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2003
Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
Keywords: AUSTRALIA FICTION AUTHORS PSYCHOLOGICAL FICTIONAL Australia & Oceania
Product_type: 2

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