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English
Text Publishing Company
01 December 2020
And he was just a boy, this Mr Coetzee. I was a woman and he was a boy. He was a boy as a priest is always a boy until suddenly one day he is an old man.

After some time in America, the young unpublished writer John Coetzee returns to suburban Cape Town to live with his ailing father. His biographer chronicles this period in a series of interviews with the people important in Coetzee’s life, constructing a portrait of an awkward literary man at a remove from those around him. Summertime is the last of J. M. Coetzee’s masterly trio of autobiographical novels, Scenes from Provincial Life.

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Imprint:   Text Publishing Company
Country of Publication:   Australia
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 17mm
Weight:   212g
ISBN:   9781922330048
ISBN 10:   1922330043
Pages:   288
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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 Summertime

'Not since Disgrace has he written with such urgency and feeling.' * New Yorker *


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

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