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Life & Times of Michael K.
by Coetzee, J.M
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
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About This Item
South Africa: Ravan Press, 1983. First edition of the author's first Booker Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by J.M. Coetzee on the title page. Some bleedthrough on the bottom pages, near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Marcus Wilson- Smith. Photograph of the author by Geraldine Farley. The South African novelist J.M. Coetzee is the recipient of the 1985 Prix Femina Étranger, the 1999 Book Prize, and the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. He has been described as "inarguably the most celebrated and decorated" living writer in the Anglosphere (Poplak, 2013). Life & Times of Michael K. won the 1983 Booker Prize for its depiction of an arduous journey from civil war-ridden urban South Africa to the chracter's mother's rural birthplace, during apartheid era, in the 1970-80s. "So purifying to the senses that one comes away feeling that one''s eye has been sharpened, one''s hearing vivified" (The New York Times Book Review).
Synopsis
Life & Times of Michael K is a 1983 novel by South African-born author J. M. Coetzee, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for the year 2003. The book itself won the Booker Prize for 1983. The novel is a story of hare lipped, simple gardener Michael K, who makes an arduous journey from civil war-ridden urban South Africa to his mother's rural birthplace, during apartheid era, in the 1970-80s.
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- Bookseller
- Raptis Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 100092
- Title
- Life & Times of Michael K.
- Author
- Coetzee, J.M
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Ravan Press
- Place of Publication
- South Africa
- Date Published
- 1983
- Keywords
- Booker Prize, Life and Times of Michael K First Edition, Life and Times of Michael K Signed First Edition
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