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Summertime (Hardback)
Short Description for SummertimeA title that completes the trilogy of fictionalised memoir begun with "Boyhood" and "Youth".
Full description- Publisher: HARVILL SECKER
- Published: 13 August 2009
- Format: Hardback 272 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9781846553189 ISBN 10: 1846553180
- Sales rank: 23,775
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Playing with a life
Having read a couple of Coetzee's novels (Disgrace, Michael K), I was slightly wrongfooted by this book, which blurs the lines between fact and fiction - is it an autobiographical novel, or a fictionalised autobiography? It's slightly unnerving that Coetzee imagines a time after his death, but the cool distancing effect he uses in his fiction works well, as he examines his own life through the perspective of others. Perhaps not a complete triumph, but a very interesting experiment, and recommended as such. by Gil Barrow
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