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  Slow Man (Vintage books) (Paperback) By (author) J. M. Coetzee

  

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  Short Description for Slow ManPaul Rayment is on the threshold of a comfortable old age when a calamitous cycling accident results in the amputation of a leg. Humiliated, his body truncated, his life circumscribed, he turns away from his friends. He hires a nurse named Marijana, with whom he has a European childhood in common: hers in Croatia, his in France.
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  • Publisher: VINTAGE
  • Published: 01 January 2007
  • Format: Paperback 272 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780099490623 ISBN 10: 0099490625
  • Sales rank: 43,472

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Full description for Slow Man

• Paul Rayment is on the threshold of a comfortable old age when a calamitous cycling accident results in the amputation of a leg. Humiliated, his body truncated, his life circumscribed, he turns away from his friends. He hires a nurse named Marijana, with whom he has a European childhood in common: hers in Croatia, his in France. Tactfully and efficiently she ministers to his needs. But his feelings for her, and for her handsome teenage son, are complicated by the sudden arrival on his doorstep of the celebrated Australian novelist Elizabeth Costello, who threatens to take over the direction of his life and the affairs of his heart. Unflinching in its vision of suffering and generous in its portrayal of the spirit of care, "Slow Man" is a masterful work of fiction by one of the world's greatest writers.