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.
| ISBN: | 9780099490623 |
| Publication date: | 7th September 2006 |
| Author: | J M Coetzee |
| Publisher: | Vintage an imprint of Random House |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 265 pages |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction Narrative theme: Interior life |
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.
Slow Man features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Narrative theme: Interior life
Slow Man is available in Ebook, Paperback
Slow Man was written by J M Coetzee and published by Vintage an imprint of Random House
Slow Man has 265 pages
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