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Title: Foe
Author: Coetzee, J M
ISBN: 9780140096231
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1988
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Condition: New
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Fiction 1613444
Publisher Description:
With the same electrical intensity of language and insight that he brought to "Waiting for the Barbarians" and "The Master of Petersburg," J.M. Coetzee reinvents the story of Robinson Crusoe - and in so doing, directs our attention to the seduction and tyranny of storytelling itself.
Author: Coetzee, J M
ISBN: 9780140096231
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1988
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Condition: New
New from the publisher
Fiction 1613444
Publisher Description:
With the same electrical intensity of language and insight that he brought to "Waiting for the Barbarians" and "The Master of Petersburg," J.M. Coetzee reinvents the story of Robinson Crusoe - and in so doing, directs our attention to the seduction and tyranny of storytelling itself.
In 1720 the eminent man of letters Daniel Foe is approached by Susan Barton, lately a castaway on a desert island. She wants him to tell her story, and that of the enigmatic man who has become her rescuer, companion, master and sometime lover: Cruso. Cruso is dead, and his manservant, Friday, is incapable of speech. As she tries to relate the truth about him, the ambitious Barton cannot help turning Cruso into her invention. For as narrated by Foe - as by Coetzee himself - the stories we thought we know acquire depths that are at once treacherous, elegant, and unexpectedly moving.
