Elizabeth Costello

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Elizabeth Costello

Title:

Elizabeth Costello

Author:

Coetzee, J. M., 1940-

ISBN:

9780142004814

9780670031306

Personal Author:

Coetzee, J. M., 1940-

Publication Information:

New York : Penguin Books, 2004.

Physical Description:

231 p. ; 20 cm.

Contents:

Realism -- Novel in Africa -- Lives of animals: The philosophers and the animals -- Lives of animals: The poets and the animals -- Humanities in Africa -- Problem of evil -- Eros -- At the gate -- Letter of Elizabeth, Lady Chandos.

Abstract:

Elizabeth Costello is a distinguished and aging Australian novelist whose life is revealed through a series of eight formal addresses. From an award-acceptance speech at a New England liberal arts college to a lecture on evil in Amsterdam and a sexually charged reading by the poet Robert Duncan, the author draws the reader toward its astonishing conclusion. The novel is, on its 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.

Subject Term:

Women authors -- Fiction.

Australians -- Foreign countries -- Fiction.

Storytelling -- Fiction.

Authorship -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Australia -- Fiction.

Genre:

Psychological fiction

Electronic Access:

Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0716/2004559882-b.html
Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0716/2004559882-d.html

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Library	Material Type	Item Barcode	Shelf Number	Copy	Status
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Summary

J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus , is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018.

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.