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Author Coetzee, J. M., 1940-

Title Slow man / J. M. Coetzee
Published Milsons Point, N.S.W. . : Knopf, 2005

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 MELB  896.02 C6736 A6/S  AVAILABLE
Description 265 pages ; 24 cm
Summary 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. --PUBLISHER
Notes "A Knopf book"
Subject South African fiction (English) -- 20th century.
People with disabilities.
Behaviorism (Psychology) in literature.
Man-woman relationships.
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
People with disabilities -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Psychological fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)
Romance fiction.
Australian fiction
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