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Three Stories by J.M. Coetzee

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November 2014, no. 366

Three Stories by J.M. Coetzee

Text Publishing, $19.99 hb, 71 pp

Three Stories by J.M. Coetzee

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November 2014, no. 366

Each fiction in this small but handsome volume emerges from an interesting, perhaps even ‘transitional’ phase in J.M. Coetzee’s writing life: between the publication of Disgrace (1999) and Slow Man (2005); before and after receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003. The first story in the collection also predates Coetzee’s move to Adelaide in 2002, as does, presumably, the composition of the second (whose protagonist laments the corporatisation of rural South Africa, declaring, ‘I want nothing to do with it’); the third story was presented and published as Coetzee’s Nobel Lecture.

Shannon Burns reviews 'Three Stories' by J.M. Coetzee

Three Stories

by J.M. Coetzee

Text Publishing, $19.99 hb, 71 pp

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