Summertime

fiction

266 pages

English language

Published Sept. 10, 2010 by Viking.

ISBN:
978-0-670-02138-3
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OCLC Number:
430051430

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In this autobiographical novel, 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.

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This was written in a style I just could not get into. I will add though that I haven't read anything else by Coetzee. I did not know I was starting a semi-autobiographical when I picked it up. Summertime might very well be GREAT if you have a previous knowledge of Coetzee's work. I say this because the entire novel seems to be trying to explain the reasons behind his general fiction writing. I guess I need to read something else by him to put this particular piece of work into frame.

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