| ISBN |
9781867584469 |
| Name |
Coetzee, J. M., 1940- author. |
| Title |
Summertime / J.M. Coetzee ; read by a full cast. |
| Edition |
Unabridged. |
| Published |
Tullamarine, Victoria : Bolinda Audio, [2021] |
| ℗2021 |
| Description |
7 audio discs (CD) (8 hr.) : digital, stereo ; 12 cm ; in container. |
| Performers |
Read by Ruth Lass, Peter Noble, Michelene Heine, Leighton Pugh, Helen Joanne Szymczak and Susie Valerio. |
| Summary |
A young English biographer is researching a book about the late South African writer John Coetzee, focusing on Coetzee in his 30s, 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. Never having met the man himself, the biographer interviews five people who knew Coetzee well, including a married woman with whom he had an affair, his cousin Margot and a Brazilian dancer whose daughter took English lessons with him. These accounts add up to an image of an awkward, reserved and bookish young man who finds it hard to make meaningful connections with the people around him. Summertime is an inventive and inspired work of fiction that allows J.M. Coetzee to imagine his own life with a critical and unsparing eye, revealing painful moral struggles and attempts to come to grips with what it means to care for another human being. |
| Subjects |
Coetzee, J. M., -- 1940- Fiction |
| Authors -- Fiction |
| Novelists, South African -- 20th century -- Biography -- Fiction |
| Genre |
Audiobooks |
| Biographical fiction |
| Other Names |
Heine, Michelene narrator. |
| Lass, Ruth narrator. |
| Noble, Peter (Narrator) narrator. |
| Pugh, Leighton narrator. |
| Szymczak, Helen narrator. |
| Valerio, Susie narrator. |
| Added Corporate Names |
Audible, Inc |
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