Scenes from Provincial Life Summertime, Book 3, (Paperback)

from alexdaw

This is my first Coetzee book. I saw the movie adaptation of his book Disgrace recently which I found fascinating. It really made me think. And I guess this book does the same thing. I didn't want to read it at first because it is the third in a trilogy and I thought I might not do it credit not ...

from 20thomas09

The real deal with this book ; - a single man's dignity, whilst in and out of relationships, and in the South Africa of that time. I found this book interesting in that what the protagonists say about the subject of the book - a white south african writer - , says as much about themselves as it d...

from gefox

In this his third fictional autobiography, Coetzee portrays the early adulthood of a man very much like himself - with even the same name, "John Coetzee" - with similar origins and history (born into an English-speaking Afrikaner family near Capetown, returned to South Africa after some years abr...

from kidzdoc

Summertime is the third fictionalized memoir about the young Coetzee, after Boyhood and Youth. It describes his life in South Africa from 1972-77, when he returns to South Africa after completing graduate studies in the US. The famous writer John Coetzee, winner of the Nobel Prize, has recently d...

from kidzdoc

Summertime is the third fictionalized memoir about the young Coetzee, after Boyhood and Youth. It describes his life in South Africa from 1972-77, when he returns to South Africa after completing graduate studies in the US. The famous writer John Coetzee, winner of the Nobel Prize, has recently d...