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While marooned on an island in the Atlantic, Sue Barton finds herself a character in a fiction novel. She spends a year with two other castaways, a mute Negro called Friday and Robinson Cruso.
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Intimate, contemplative, prestige and grave.
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- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- J. M. Coetzee
- First published
- 1986
- Pages
- 160
- Publisher
- J. Curley & Associates, Debolsillo, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag
- Editions
- 36
- Language
- Spanish, English, German, Polish
- ISBN
- 9780140299533
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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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