Life & Times of Michael K.

COETZEE, J.M.

$8,800.00

Item Number: 146865

South Africa: Ravan Press, 1983.

First edition of the author’s first Booker Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author to his first wife on the title page, “Philippa 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 near fine dust jacket. Jacket photograph by Marcus Wilson-Smith. Photograph of the author by Geraldine Farley. One of the finest association copies extent.

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. He has been described as "inarguably the most celebrated and decorated" living writer in the Anglosphere (Poplak, 2013). Life & Times of Michael K. won the 1983 Booker Prize for its depiction of an arduous journey from civil war-ridden urban South Africa to the chracter's mother's rural birthplace, during apartheid era, in the 1970-80s. "So purifying to the senses that one comes away feeling that one''s eye has been sharpened, one''s hearing vivified" (The New York Times Book Review).