- abortion, euthanasia, animal shelters, agoraphobia
At fifty-two, Professor David Lurie is divorced, filled with desire, but lacking in passion. An affair with one of his students leaves him jobless, shunned by his friends, and ridiculed by his ex-wife.
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Contemporary, prestige, contemplative and classical in form.
- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- J. M. Coetzee
- First published
- 1999
- Pages
- 252
- Publisher
- Debolsillo, BSGPRESS, Penguin Audio
- Editions
- 56
- Language
- Spanish, German, English, French
- ISBN
- 9788484509271
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“FOR A MAN of his age, fifty-two, divorced, he has, to his mind solved the problem of sex rather well.”
John Maxwell Coetzee FRSL OMG (born 9 February 1940) is a South African and Australian novelist, essayist, linguist, translator and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is one of the most critically acclaimed and decorated authors in the English language. He has won the Booker Prize (twice), the CNA Literary Award (thrice), the Jerusalem Prize, the Prix Femina étranger, and The Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and holds a number of other awards and honorary doctorates. [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._M._Coetzee)
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