Elizabeth Costello

Name: Elizabeth Costello
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ISBN: 9781922268440

J. M. Coetzee, Melinda Harvey

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Text Publishing Company
04 August 2020

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Continuing Text's re-release of J.M. Coetzee's revered works with stylish new covers, Elizabeth Costello is a modern classic by the great the great Nobel Prize winner accompanied by introduction from one of Australia's foremost writing critics and Coetzee experts.

Introduction by Melinda Harvey

Belief may be no more, in the end, than a source of energy, like a battery which one clips into an idea to make it run.

Elizabeth Costello is a distinguished Australian author in her mid-sixties celebrated for a novel she wrote decades earlier. In a series of eight 'lessons'-the transcripts of lectures and speeches-she examines such subjects as animal rights, evil and the afterlife. Published in 2003, Elizabeth Costello was the first book J. M. Coetzee published in his new home of Australia. With its blurring of the lines between fiction and non-fiction, its rigorous interrogation of weighty ideas and moments of bleak comedy, the novel issued a new and complex challenge to Coetzee's readers.

By: J. M. Coetzee
Introduction by: Melinda Harvey
Imprint: Text Publishing Company
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 198g
ISBN: 9781922268440
ISBN 10: 1922268445
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 04 August 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

J. M. Coetzee was the first author to win the Booker Prize twice and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003. His work includes Waiting for the Barbarians, Life and Times of Michael K, The Master of Petersburg, Disgrace and Diary of a Bad Year. He lives in Adelaide.

Reviews for Elizabeth Costello

`An intimacy born from urgency crackles through each of [Coetzee's] books, as if one is not reading a text but being plugged into a brand new form of current-reinvented each time to carry a new and urgent form of narrative information.' * John Freeman * `Coetzee is the most radical shapeshifter alive.' * Australian * `Freed from literary convention, Mr Coetzee writes not to provide answers, but to ask great questions.' * Economist *

Long-listed for Best Designed Series, Australian Book Design Awards 2020 (Australia)
Short-listed for Best Designed Series, Australian Book Design Awards 2020 (Australia)