Elizabeth Costello (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Elizabeth Costello Sunday, August 2 2009.

• Since 1982, J. M. Coetzee has been dazzling the literary world. After eight novels that have won, among other awards, two Booker Prizes, and most recently, the Nobel Prize, Coetzee has once again crafted an unusual and deeply affecting tale. Told through an ingenious series of formal addresses, Elizabeth Costello is, on the surface, the story of a woman’s life as mother, sister, lover, and writer. Yet it is also a profound and haunting meditation on the nature of storytelling.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Elizabeth Costello Friday, July 24 2009.

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

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

• THERE IS FIRST of all the problem of the opening, namely, how to get us from where we are, which is, as yet, nowhere, to the far bank.