In the Heart of the Country.

COETZEE, J.M.

$7,800.00

Item Number: 147975

London: Secker and Warburg, 1977.

First edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s second book. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page to his first wife, “Philippe- Love from John.” Philippa Jubber and John Maxwell Coetzee were married in 1963. They had two children, Nicolas (1966–1989) and Gisela (b. 1968). In 1965 Coetzee entered the graduate school of the University of Texas at Austin, and in 1968 graduated with a PhD in English, linguistics, and Germanic languages. His doctoral dissertation was on the early fiction of Samuel Beckett. Near fine in a very good dust jacket.

The South African novelist J.M. Coetzee is the recipient of the 1985 Prix Femina Étranger, the 1999 Book Prize, and the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature, described as "inarguably the most celebrated and decorated" living writer in the Anglosphere (Poplak, 2013). In the Heart of the Country is a fierce and passionate novel whose protagonist observes the life from which she has been excluded. It is "[a] realistic fable, at once stark, exciting, and economical" (The New York Times Book Review). . Basis for the 1985 motion picture, Dust, directed by Marion Hänsel.