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Slow Man
J.M. Coetzee

Slow Man

Viking (Sep 22, 2005)
9780670034598
| Hardcover
265 pages | 148 x 212 mm | English
Dewey 823.914
LC Classification PR9369.3.C58 .S56 2005
LC Control No. 2005054693

Genre

  • Didactic Fiction

Subject

  • Amputees
  • Amputees/ Fiction
  • Nurse And Patient
  • Nurse And Patient/ Fiction
  • Women Novelists/ Fiction

Plot

Rendered dependent on others after losing his leg in a bicycle accident, sixty-year-old photographer Paul Rayment finds himself falling in love with a down-to-earth Croatian nurse and encouraged by a mysterious writer to take an activist role in his own life. By the author of Elizabeth Costello. 75,000 first printing.