His insistence on doing manual work, his long hair and beard, rumours that he writes poetry evoke nothing but suspicion in the South Africa of the time.įirst published in Australia by Knopf in 2009 This edition published by Vintage in 2010.Ĭoetzee, J.
Within the family he is regarded as an outsider, someone who tried to flee the tribe and has now returned, chastened. From their testimony emerges a portrait of the young Coetzee as an awkward, bookish individual with little talent for opening himself to others. Never having met Coetzee, he embarks on a series of interviews with people who were important to him - a married woman with whom he had an affair, his favourite cousin Margot, a Brazilian dancer whose daughter had English lessons with him, former friends and colleagues. This, the biographer senses, is the period when he was 'finding his feet as a writer'. He plans to focus on the years from 1972-1977 when Coetzee, in his thirties, is sharing a run-down cottage in the suburbs of Cape Town with his widowed father. A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. North Sydney, NSW : Random House Australia, 2010Ī rich, funny, and deeply affecting autobiographical novel from one of the world's greatest living writers. National edeposit: Available onsite at national, state and territory libraries National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia.
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