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Title Statement | Slow man / J.M. Coetzee. |
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Author | Coetzee, J. M., 1940- |
Publication | London: Secker & Warburg, 2005. |
Extent of Item | 265 p. |
ISBN | 0436206110 |
Other Number | 1493608 |
Summary | After photographer Paul Rayment loses his leg in a bicycle accident he returns to his bachelors apartment in Adelaide, Australia. His spirits are lifted when he finds himself falling in love with Marijana, his practical, down-to-earth Croatian nurse. As Paul contemplates how to win her heart, he is visited by the writer Elizabeth Costello, who threatens to take over the direction of his life and the affairs of his heart. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Photographers--Fiction |
Leg--Fiction--Amputation--Patients | |
Amputees--Fiction--Psychology | |
By Location | Adelaide (S. Aust.)--Fiction |