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Foe / J.M. Coetzee.

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9781922268105 (paperback)
Name	Coetzee, J. M., 1940- author.
Title	Foe / J.M. Coetzee.
Published	Melbourne, Victoria : Text Publishing, 2019.
Published	©1986
Description	xii, 148 pages ; 20 cm.
Notes	Introduction "She and her man" by Peter Goldsworthy.
Notes	First published in Great Britain by Secker & Warburg, 1986.
Summary	In a world of chance is there a better and a worse? We yield to a stranger's embrace or give ourselves to the waves; for the blink of an eyelid our vigilance relaxes; we are asleep; and when we awake, we have lost the direction of our lives. In this extraordinary novel J. M. Coetzee asks his readers to re-imagine Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. It is the early 1700s. A young woman, Susan Barton, washes ashore on a remote island, populated only by Cruso and Friday, his mute slave. It will finally fall to Barton, having been rescued, to tell their tale of survival--but in order to do that she must grapple with the nature of storytelling itself.
Subjects	Survival -- Fiction
Subjects	Authorship -- Fiction
Genre	Didactic fiction
Genre	Allegories
Other Names	Goldsworthy, Peter, 1951- author of introduction, etc.
Other Names	Inspired by: Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731. Robinson Crusoe
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Allegories . Authorship -- Fiction . Didactic fiction . Survival -- Fiction . See Also: Fables . Fiction . Parables . Tales . Authors: Coetzee, J. M., 1940- . Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731. Robinson Crusoe . Goldsworthy, Peter, 1951- .