Items related to A Land Apart: A Contemporary South African Reader
Book by
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
About the Author:
Born in Cape Town, South Africa, on February 9, 1940, John Michael Coetzee studied first at Cape Town and later at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned a Ph.D. degree in literature. In 1972 he returned to South Africa and joined the faculty of the University of Cape Town. His works of fiction include Dusklands, Waiting for the Barbarians, which won South Africa’s highest literary honor, the Central News Agency Literary Award, and the Life and Times of Michael K., for which Coetzee was awarded his first Booker Prize in 1983. He has also published a memoir, Boyhood: Scenes From a Provincial Life, and several essays collections. He has won many other literary prizes including the Lannan Award for Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize and The Irish Times International Fiction Prize. In 1999 he again won Britain’s prestigious Booker Prize for Disgrace, becoming the first author to win the award twice in its 31-year history. In 2003, Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Language Notes:
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Afrikaans
Original Language: Afrikaans
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
- PublisherViking Adult
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0670816426
- ISBN 13 9780670816422
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- EditorBrink Andre, Coetzee J. M.
- Rating
Top Search Results from the AbeBooks Marketplace
Stock Image
A Land Apart : A South African Reader
Published by
Penguin Publishing Group
(1987)
ISBN 10: 0670816426
ISBN 13: 9780670816422
Used
Hardcover
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description Condition: Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. Seller Inventory # 41166475-6
Buy Used
US$ 13.92
Convert currency
Seller Image
A Land Apart: A Contemporary South African Reader
Published by
Viking Press
(1987)
ISBN 10: 0670816426
ISBN 13: 9780670816422
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Dustjacket. 1st edition. New York. 1987. June 1987. Viking Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0670816426. 256 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Robert Aulicino. Jacket illustration by Polly Raynes. keywords: Literature South Africa Anthology. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In A LAND APART, two of South Africa's most eminent authors offer a vivid selection from the literature of a nation in crisis; and there is hardly a piece here which does not reflect the complexity and ambiguity of the situation, or challenge the received wisdom of the outside world (The Literary Review). The contemporary writings included here vary widely in their styles and intent, and range from explorations of the most private of pains to brutal dissections of the current military and political situation. The English section, edited by J. M. Coetzee, gathers together works of fiction, poetry, and autobiography. Andre Brink, concentrating on the Afrikaans tradition, introduces the voices of fiction writers who have often been banned in their own country and abroad. Through irony, literary subterfuge, or straightforward indictment, the writers represented in this superb collection struggle to explain and affect the society of their native land. inventory #9444. Seller Inventory # z9444
Buy Used
US$ 10.50
Convert currency
Stock Image
A Land Apart: A Contemporary South African Reader
Published by
Viking Press
(1987)
ISBN 10: 0670816426
ISBN 13: 9780670816422
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Quantity: 1
Seller:
Rating
Book Description hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Dustjacket. 1st edition. New York. 1987. June 1987. Viking Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0670816426. 256 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Robert Aulicino. Jacket illustration by Polly Raynes. Signed by Andre Brink. keywords: Literature South Africa Anthology. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In A LAND APART, two of South Africa's most eminent authors offer a vivid selection from the literature of a nation in crisis; and there is hardly a piece here which does not reflect the complexity and ambiguity of the situation, or challenge the received wisdom of the outside world (The Literary Review). The contemporary writings included here vary widely in their styles and intent, and range from explorations of the most private of pains to brutal dissections of the current military and political situation. The English section, edited by J. M. Coetzee, gathers together works of fiction, poetry, and autobiography. Andre Brink, concentrating on the Afrikaans tradition, introduces the voices of fiction writers who have often been banned in their own country and abroad. Through irony, literary subterfuge, or straightforward indictment, the writers represented in this superb collection struggle to explain and affect the society of their native land. inventory #8590. Seller Inventory # z8590
Buy Used
US$ 105.00
Convert currency