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This title includes a reading guide. After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressure to repent publicly, he resigns and retreats to his daughter Lucy's isolated smallholding. For a time, his daughter's influence and the natural rhythms of the farm promise to harmonize his discordant life. But the balance of power in the country is shifting. He and Lucy become victims of a savage and disturbing attack which brings into relief all the faultlines in their relationship.

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Disgrace
• Author: J M Coetzee
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240
• EAN: 9780099540984
• ISBN: 0099540983
• ID: 04019613
• Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• Weight: 178 g
• Dimensions: 199 × 130 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 07. October 2010

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