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Life & times of Michael K / J.M. Coetzee ; introduced by Stephanie Bishop.

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9781925773873 (paperback)
Name	Coetzee, J. M., 1940- author.
Title	Life & times of Michael K / J.M. Coetzee ; introduced by Stephanie Bishop.
Published	Melbourne, Victoria : Text Publishing, 2019.
Published	©1983
Description	xiv, 224 pages ; 20 cm.
Notes	Introduction "Time flowing slowly like oil" by Stephanie Bishop.
Notes	First published in Great Britain by Secker & Warburg, 1983.
Summary	There was a cord of tenderness that stretched from him to the patch of earth beside that dam and must be cut. It seemed to him that one could cut a cord like that only so many times before it would not grow again. Michael K is returning his elderly mother to her rural birthplace when she dies, leaving him to the mercy of roving armies in a South Africa gripped by war. Locked up, he escapes, determined to live life on his own terms. This compassionate and life-affirming novel speaks to the human need for connection to each other and to the world and an interior life.
Subjects	Gardeners -- Fiction
	Insurgency -- South Africa -- Fiction
	Mothers -- Death -- Fiction
	South Africa -- Fiction
Genre	Psychological fiction
Other Names	Bishop, Stephanie, 1979- author of introduction, etc.
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Gardeners -- Fiction . Insurgency -- South Africa -- Fiction . Mothers -- Death -- Fiction . Psychological fiction . South Africa -- Fiction . See Also: Stream of consciousness fiction . Authors: Bishop, Stephanie, 1979- . Coetzee, J. M., 1940- .