Life & Times of Michael K

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ISBN-10: 0140074481
ISBN-13: 9780140074482
Publisher: Penguin Books
Publish Date: 01/08/1985
Dimensions: 7.60" L, 5.00" W, 0.40" H

Life & Times of Michael K

byJ M Coetzee

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Overview

In a South Africa torn by civil war, Michael K sets out to take his ailing mother back to her rural home. On the way there she dies, leaving him alone in an anarchic world of brutal roving armies. Imprisoned, Michael is unable to bear confinement and escapes, determined to live with dignity. This life-affirming novel goes to the center of human experience- the need for an interior, spiritual life; for some connections to the world in which we live; and for purity of vision.

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"An outstanding achievment." –Nadine Gordimer

"A major work of crystalline intensity." –Los Angeles Times

"So purifying to the senses that one comes away feeling that one's eye has been sharpened, one's hearing vivified." –The New York Times Book Review

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Details

ISBN-10: 0140074481
ISBN-13: 9780140074482
Publisher: Penguin Books
Publish Date: 01/08/1985
Dimensions: 7.60" L, 5.00" W, 0.40" H
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