Summertime ~ Scenes From Provincial Life by J M Coetzee - 2009

Knopf. Very Good. Paperback. 2009. A young English biographer is researching a book about the late S outh African writer John Coetzee, focusing on Coetzee in his thir ties, at a time when he was living in a rundown cottage in the Ca pe Town suburbs with his widowed father-a time, the biographer is convinced, when Coetzee was finding himself as a writer. Never h aving ... .

australia: Knopf, 2009. First edition thus. Hardcover. New/new. First printed in United Kingdom by Harvill Secker in 2009. This is the first printing first edition of the Australain edition. Has number line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. 266 pages. Perfect condition - unopened, unread. Dust Jacket put in Brodart archival clear cover from new. On Man Booker Prize shortlist in 2009. "A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. He plans to focus on the years from 1972-1977 when Coetzee, in his thirties, is sharing a run-down cottage in the suburbs of Cape Town with his widowed father"