Summertime: Fiction  enlarge Author: J. M. Coetzee Publisher: Viking Adult Category: Book List Price: $25.95 Buy New: $3.70 as of 2/8/2012 14:07 CST details You Save: $22.25 (86%) New (20) Used (56) Collectible (5) from $0.01 Seller: best_bargain_books3 Sales Rank: 332144 Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published) Media: Hardcover Edition: First Edition Pages: 272 Number Of Items: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9 Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 6.5 x 0.9 ISBN: 0670021385 EAN: 9780670021383 ASIN: 0670021385 Publication Date: December 24, 2009 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Also Available In:   •  Hardcover - Summertime: Fiction   •  Hardcover - Summertime (Import)   •  Perfect Paperback - Summertime   •  Paperback - Summertime   •  Hardcover - Summertime (Platinum Readers Circle (Center Point))   •  Hardcover - Summertime   •  Hardcover - Summertime (Platinum Readers Circle (Center Point))   •  Paperback - Summertime: Fiction Similar Items: Life and Times of Michael K: A Novel Boyhood: Scenes From Provincial Life In the Heart of the Country: A Novel Disgrace Diary of a Bad Year Editorial Reviews: Product Description Shortlisted for the 2009 Man Booker Prize A brilliant new work of fiction from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Disgrace and Diary of a Bad Year A young English biographer is researching a book about the late South African writer John Coetzee, focusing on Coetzee in his thirties, at a time when he was living in a rundown cottage in the Cape Town suburbs with his widowed father-a time, the biographer is convinced, when Coetzee was finding himself as a writer. Never having met the man himself, the biographer interviews five people who knew Coetzee well, including a married woman with whom he had an affair, his cousin Margot, and a Brazilian dancer whose daughter took English lessons with him. These accounts add up to an image of an awkward, reserved, and bookish young man who finds it hard to make meaningful connections with the people around him. Summertime is an inventive and inspired work of fiction that allows J.M. Coetzee to imagine his own life with a critical and unsparing eye, revealing painful moral struggles and attempts to come to grips with what it means to care for another human being. Incisive, elegant, and often surprisingly funny, Summertime is a compelling work by one of today's most esteemed writers.

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