King Penguin Foe, (Paperback)

from Kplatypus

I had never heard of this until another LTer mentioned it during a discussion on the 1001 books thread, but he/she mentioned that it was a retelling of Robinson Crusoe and that it was better when r...

from Britt84

Great, yet confusing... I love Coetzee's style and I like the way he takes Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and turns it into something different altogether. The book keeps you guessing all along, and it ne...

from TheAmpersand

J.M. Coetzee's "Foe" is, in many ways, the sort of modern literature that many readers love to hate. The novel has a plot - Susan Barton, the novel's narrator, gets shipwrecked on an island with a ...

from gwendolyndawson

A novella told from the perspective of a shipwrecked woman. This is a complex story that acts as a metaphor for the writing process. In the end, we are unsure whether the female protagonist even ex...

from OscarWilde87

At only 157 pages, Foe is a rather short novel that reinvents Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. While the novel is still set in the eighteenth century, a new character is introduced in the form of Su...