J. M. Coetzee

A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. He embarks on a series of interviews with people who were important to him. It completes the majestic trilogy of fictionalised memoir begun with "Boyhood" and "Youth."

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Daryl Houston

It's a well-made book but not, for me, an especially interesting one. It's good-but-not-interesting in the way James is, I suppose. At least it's briefer.

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Seth Kalback

In this autobiographical novel, a young English biographer is researching a book about the late South African writer John Coetzee, focusing on Coetzee in his thirties, at a time when he was living in a rundown cottage in the Cape Town suburbs with his widowed father--a time, the biographer is convinced, when Coetzee was finding himself as a writer.

Lia 

Amanda S

Sabine Delorme

Rudos

Researching a late South African writer, a young English biographer interviews five people whose accounts describe a reserved and bookish young man who had trouble making connections.

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