{"product_id":"elizabeth-costello-fiction-paperback","title":"Elizabeth Costello: Fiction - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJ. M. Coetzee\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eJ.M. Coetzee's latest novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Schooldays of Jesus\u003c\/i\u003e, is now available from Viking. \u003ci\u003eLate Essays: 2006-2016\u003c\/i\u003e will be available January 2018. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSince 1982, J. M. Coetzee has been dazzling the literary world. After eight novels that have won, among other awards, two Booker Prizes, and most recently, the Nobel Prize, Coetzee has once again crafted an unusual and deeply affecting tale. Told through an ingenious series of formal addresses, \u003ci\u003eElizabeth Costello\u003c\/i\u003e is, on the surface, the story of a woman's life as mother, sister, lover, and writer. Yet it is also a profound and haunting meditation on the nature of storytelling.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn 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 \u003cb\u003eDusklands, Waiting for the Barbarians\u003c\/b\u003e, which won South Africa's highest literary honor, the Central News Agency Literary Award, and the \u003cb\u003eLife and Times of Michael K\u003c\/b\u003e., for which Coetzee was awarded his first Booker Prize in 1983. He has also published a memoir, \u003cb\u003eBoyhood: Scenes From a Provincial Life\u003c\/b\u003e, and several essays collections. He has won many other literary prizes including the Lannan Award for Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize and The \u003cb\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/b\u003e International Fiction Prize. In 1999 he again won Britain's prestigious Booker Prize for \u003cb\u003eDisgrace\u003c\/b\u003e, becoming the first author to win the award twice in its 31-year history. In 2003, Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 7.88 x 5.18 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 26, 2004\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51749956682016,"sku":"9780142004814","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/db4cc3303eec96a450cd8ccea9284788.webp?v=1779940757","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/elizabeth-costello-fiction-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}