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Foe
by Coetzee, J. M
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Like New/Like New
- ISBN 10
- 0670813982
- ISBN 13
- 9780670813988
- Seller
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Olympia, Washington, United States
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About This Item
Viking Pr, 1987-02-01. First American Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. 8x5x0. Hardcover. Near fine. Near fine dust jacket in protective mylar wraps. Light rubbing to boards. Binding square and tight. No highlighting, notation, or remainder marks. Thank you for supporting Last Word Books and independent bookstores.
Synopsis
With the same electrical intensity of language and insight that he brought to Waiting for the Barbarians and The Master of Petersburg, J.M. Coetzee reinvents the story of Robinson Crusoe—and in so doing, directs our attention to the seduction and tyranny of storytelling itself In 1720 the eminent man of letters Daniel Foe is approached by Susan Barton, lately a castaway on a desert island. She wants him to tell her story, and that of the enigmatic man who has become her rescuer, companion, master and sometimes lover: Cruso. Cruso is dead, and his manservant, Friday, is incapable of speech. As she tries to relate the truth about him, the ambitious Barton cannot help turning Cruso into her invention. For as narrated by Foe—as by Coetzee himself—the stories we thought we knew acquire depths that are at once treacherous, elegant, and unexpectedly moving.
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- Bookseller
- Last Word Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 210419779
- Title
- Foe
- Author
- Coetzee, J. M
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New Like New
- Jacket Condition
- Like New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0670813982
- ISBN 13
- 9780670813988
- Publisher
- Viking Pr
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1987-02-01
- Size
- 8x5x0
- Keywords
- fiction, literary, shipwrecks, deserted islands, first editions
- X weight
- 12 oz
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