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  Disgrace (Paperback) By (author) J. M. Coetzee

  

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  Short Description for DisgraceAfter years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressue to repent publicly, he resigns.
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  • Publisher: VINTAGE
  • Published: 06 August 2009
  • Format: Paperback 240 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780099535140 ISBN 10: 0099535149
  • Sales rank: 97,722

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• After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressue to repent publicly, he resigns and retreats to his daughter Lucy's isolated small holding. For a time, his daughter's influence and natural rhythms of the farm promise to harmonise his discordant life. But the balance of power in the country is shifting. He and Lucy become victims of a savage and disturbing attack which brings into relief all the faultlines in their relationship.