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COETZEE**, J[ohn] M[axwell]: : SUMMERTIME: Scenes from Provincial Life.**

LONDON.HARVILL SECKER,2009.

ISBN 9781846553189.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line,2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1.] FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,clean,matt,scenic colour photographic illustrated dw/dj,with b/w+ blue lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present - virtually as new - wrapped and protected from day of issue/ purchase.A 'Shortlisted Man Booker Prize 2009' adhesive rectangular,label to foot of upper panel of dw/dj.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,unread apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain tan cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain black endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,3-266pp [paginated] includes notebooks 1972-75,and five other chapters/sections, notebooks: undated fragments; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages, contents list/table,and chapter/section separator pages. A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer,John Coetzee. He plans to focus on the years 1972-1977 when Coetzee,in his thirties,was sharing a run-down cottage in the suburbs of Cape Town with his widowed father. This,the biographer senses,is the period when he was 'finding his feet as a writer'. Having never met Coetzee,he embarks on a series of interviews with people who were important to him - a married woman with whom he had an affair,his favourite cousin Margot,a Brazilian dancer whose daughter had English lessons with him,former friends and colleagues.From their testimony emerges a portrait of the young Coetzee as an awkward,bookish individual with little talent for opening himself to others.Within the family he is regarded as an outsider, someone who tried to flee the tribe and has now returned,chastened.His insistence on doing manual work,his long hair and beard, rumours that he writes poetry evoke nothing but suspicion in the South Africa of the time. Sometimes heartbreaking,often very funny, 'Summertime' shows us a great writer as he limbers up for his task.It completes the majestic trilogy of fictionalised memoir begun with 'Boyhood' and 'Youth'. Coetzee was the first writer to win the Booker Prize twice,the first time with 'The Life & Times of Michael K' in 1983 and the second with 'Disgrace' in 1999 (see my book ID rja527215 in my 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die catalogue.). So far,only two others have achieved the same level of success: Peter Carey in 1988 and 2001 and Hilary Mantel in 2009 and 2012.In fact,this title of his was longlisted,then shortlisted and was an early favourite to win the Man Booker a third time,only to lose out to Hilary Mantel's 'Wolf Hall'. Consistently longlisted in 2003 - for 'Elizabeth Costello' and in 2005 for 'Slow Man'.He has also won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

COETZEE**, J[ohn] M[axwell]: : SUMMERTIME: Scenes from Provincial Life.**

LONDON.HARVILL SECKER,2009.

ISBN 9781846553189.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,3rd imp.[Complete number line,4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3.]FINE+/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, clean,matt,scenic colour photographic illustrated dw/dj,with b/w+ blue lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present - virtually as new - wrapped and protected from day of issue/purchase.'Shortlisted Man Booker Prize 2009' white lettering towards lower edge of front panel of dw/dj.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,unread apart from my own collation. Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain tan cloth boards with bright, crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain black endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,3-266pp [paginated] includes notebooks 1972-75,and five other chapters/ sections,notebooks: undated fragments; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,contents list/table,and chapter/section separator pages. A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer,John Coetzee.He plans to focus on the years 1972-1977 when Coetzee,in his thirties,was sharing a run-down cottage in the suburbs of Cape Town with his widowed father. This,the biographer senses,is the period when he was 'finding his feet as a writer'. Having never met Coetzee,he embarks on a series of interviews with people who were important to him - a married woman with whom he had an affair,his favourite cousin Margot,a Brazilian dancer whose daughter had English lessons with him,former friends and colleagues.From their testimony emerges a portrait of the young Coetzee as an awkward,bookish individual with little talent for opening himself to others. Within the family he is regarded as an outsider, someone who tried to flee the tribe and has now returned,chastened.His insistence on doing manual work,his long hair and beard,rumours that he writes poetry evoke nothing but suspicion in the South Africa of the time. Sometimes heartbreaking,often very funny, 'Summertime' shows us a great writer as he limbers up for his task.It completes the majestic trilogy of fictionalised memoir begun with 'Boyhood' and 'Youth'. Coetzee was the first writer to win the Booker Prize twice,the first time with 'The Life & Times of Michael K' in 1983 and the second with 'Disgrace' in 1999 (see my book ID rja527215 in my 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die catalogue.).So far,only two others have achieved the same level of success: Peter Carey in 1988 and 2001 and Hilary Mantel in 2009 and 2012.In fact,this title of his was longlisted,then shortlisted and was an early favourite to win the Man Booker a third time,only to lose out to Hilary Mantel's 'Wolf Hall'. Consistently longlisted in 2003 - for 'Elizabeth Costello' and in 2005 for 'Slow Man'.He has also won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight and value of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,3rd imp.
Not SIGNED.

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