Life & times of Michael K

Coetzee, J. M.

ISBN 10: 0436102978 / ISBN 13: 9780436102974

Published by Ravan Press, London, 1983

About this Item

First edition first printing . Book and dust wrapper in very good condition . Book has no inscriptions and is not an ex library book . Dust wrapper is price clipped and has a faded spine. Please see photographs which are of the actual book . Book is in transparent protective wrapper . All books shipped via Royal mail tracked and packed in bubble wrap and cardboard book sleeves.

Seller Inventory # 300

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Life & times of Michael K
• Publisher: Ravan Press, London
• Publication Date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0436102978
• ISBN 13: 9780436102974
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Dimensions: 140W x 205H x 30D millimeters 140 millimeters width by 205 millimeters height by 30 millimeters depth
• Weight: 430 grams

About this title

Synopsis

NY 1983 1st (stated) Viking. ISBN 0-670-42789-6. Hardcover. Octavo, cloth. Fine in Fine DJ, price clipped and fore-edges very slightly spotted.

From the Inside Flap

In South Africa, whose civil administration is colapsing under the pressure of years of civil strife, an obscure young gardener named Michael K decides to take his mother on a long march away from the guns towards a new life in the abandoned countryside. Everywhere he goes however, the war follows him. Tracked down and locked up as a collaborator with the rural guerrillas, he embarks on a fast that angers, baffles, and finally awes his captors. The story of Michael K is the story of a man caught up in a war beyond his understanding, but determined to live his life, however minimally, on his own terms. J.M. Coetzee has produced a masterpiece which has the astonishing power to make the wilderness boom.