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 Disgrace J M Coetzee Winner of the 1999 Booker Prize 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 harmonise 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. 'Coetzee captures with appalling skill the white dilemma in South Africa' Justin Cartwright, Daily Telegraph 'By this late point in the century the journey to a heart of narrative darkness has become a safe literary destination, almost a cliche. Disgrace goes beyond this to explore the furthest reaches of what it means to be human; it is at the frontier of world literature' Geoff Dyer, Sunday Telegraph This Vintage Books paperback is in good condition. Year first published: 1999 This edition:2000 ISBN: 0099289520
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