Slow Man
by:
J.M. Coetzee (author)
J. M. Coetzee , one of the greatest living writers in the English language, has crafted a deeply moving tale of love and mortality in his new book, Slow Man. When photographer Paul Rayment loses his leg in a bicycle accident, he is forced to reexamine how he has lived his life. Through Paul's...
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J. M. Coetzee , one of the greatest living writers in the English language, has crafted a deeply moving tale of love and mortality in his new book, Slow Man. When photographer Paul Rayment loses his leg in a bicycle accident, he is forced to reexamine how he has lived his life. Through Paul's story, Coetzee addresses questions that define us all: What does it mean to do good? What in our lives is ultimately meaningful? How do we define the place we call "home"? In his clear and uncompromising voice, Coetzee struggles with these issues and offers a story that will dazzle the reader on every page.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780143037897 (0143037897)
Publish date: September 26th 2006
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Africa,
Adult Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Contemporary,
Modern,
Nobel Prize,
Australia,
African Literature
I read far more than was necessary to finally determine this book was not worth reading. Upon the entrance of Elizabeth Costello I knew pretty much that I was in for a weighty disappointment. The main character and his stubborn life-style refusals and insistence on furthering an ill-fated and inap...
Well, the titles says it all. Main character, Paul Rayments age 60 is a very active man, a photographer, untill he suffers from bicycle accident and needs to have a leg amputated. It's obvious that his life will never be the same... So I really thought that this story about and enderly man who need...
This is my first Coetzee, and for the first sixty pages, it seemed to be an interesting but not arresting book about an older man coping with losing a leg, and his mobility and freedom, and the after effects of such a loss, including falling in love with his nurse. Nothing earthshattering.And then t...
This is an odd little book, no question.Paul Rayment suffers a terrible accident whilst cycling along the road in Adelaide, Australia. And falls in love with his caretaker. That's where the book takes the unexpected turn. Delving into the borderline between author and subject, between the writer and...
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