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Disgrace

J.M. Coetzee

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1999
Pages
Pages 220

A Cape Town professor is drummed out for an affair with a student and retreats to his daughter's smallholding, where an attack strips them both of every remaining certainty.

For a man of his age, fifty-two, divorced, he has, to his mind, solved the problem of sex rather well.
Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee

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