Disgrace (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Disgrace Wednesday, December 9 2009.

• Disgrace --set in post--apartheid Cape Town and on a remote farm in the Eastern Cape--is deft, lean, quiet, and brutal. A heartbreaking novel about a man and his daughter, Disgrace is a portrait of the new South Africa that is ultimately about grace and love. At fifty--two Professor David Lurie is divorced, filled with desire but lacking passion. An affair with one of his students leaves him jobless and friendless, except for his daughter, Lucy, who works her smallholding with her neighbor, Petrus, an African farmer now on the way to a modest prosperity. David's attempts to relate to Lucy, and to a society with new racial complexities, are disrupted by an afternoon of violence that changes him and his daughter in ways he could never have foreseen. In this wry, visceral, yet strangely tender novel, Coetzee once again tells "truths <that> cut to the bone" ( The New York Time Book Review ). A finalist for The National Book Critics Circle Awards Coetzee is the only writer to have been awarded the Booker Prize twice

Timothy Gray approved Timothy Gray’s request to combine 17 books, including Disgrace, Saturday, October 31 2009.

Timothy Gray edited the awards of Disgrace Saturday, October 24 2009.

• Edited ranking of an award: Man Booker Prize winner
• Unchecked finalist field of an award: Man Booker Prize

Timothy Gray edited the first sentence of Disgrace Saturday, October 24 2009.

• FOR A MANFor a man of his age, fifty-two, divorced, he has, to his mind solved the problem of sex rather well.

Timothy Gray edited the awards of Disgrace Saturday, October 24 2009.

• Added an award: Man Booker Prize
• Added year of an award: Man Booker Prize 1999
• Checked finalist field of an award: Man Booker Prize

Timothy Gray submitted a request to combine 17 books, including Disgrace, Saturday, October 24 2009.

Shelfari edited the description of Disgrace Saturday, August 1 2009.

• Disgrace --set in post--apartheid Cape Town and on a remote farm in the Eastern Cape--is deft, lean, quiet, and brutal. A heartbreaking novel about a man and his daughter, Disgrace is a portrait of the new South Africa that is ultimately about grace and love. At fifty--two Professor David Lurie is divorced, filled with desire but lacking passion. An affair with one of his students leaves him jobless and friendless, except for his daughter, Lucy, who works her smallholding with her neighbor, Petrus, an African farmer now on the way to a modest prosperity. David's attempts to relate to Lucy, and to a society with new racial complexities, are disrupted by an afternoon of violence that changes him and his daughter in ways he could never have foreseen. In this wry, visceral, yet strangely tender novel, Coetzee once again tells "truths <that> cut to the bone" ( The New York Time Book Review ). A finalist for The National Book Critics Circle Awards Coetzee is the only writer to have been awarded the Booker Prize twice

Shelfari edited the contributors of Disgrace Wednesday, July 22 2009.

• Added a contributor: J. M. Coetzee: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Disgrace Thursday, July 16 2009.

• FOR A MAN of his age, fifty-two, divorced, he has, to his mind solved the problem of sex rather well.