{"product_id":"summertime-fiction-scenes-from-provincial-life","title":"Summertime: Fiction (Scenes from Provincial Life)","description":"\"Not since Disgrace, has he written with such urgency and feeling.\" -The New Yorker\n\nJ.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018.\n\nNobel Prize-winning author J. M. Coetzee's new book follows a young biographer as he works on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. The biographer embarks on a series of interviews with people who were important to Coetzee during the period when he was \"finding his feet as a writer\"-in his thirties and sharing a run-down cottage in the suburbs of Cape Town with his widowed father. Their testimonies create an image of an awkward, reserved, and bookish young man who finds it difficult to connect with the people around him. An innovative and inspired work of fiction-incisive, elegant, and often surprisingly funny- Summertime allows one of the most revered writers of our time to imagine his own life with a critical and unsparing eye.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0143118455\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.0143118455.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Coetzee, J. M.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item is very worn but is perfectly usable. Signs of wear can include aesthetic issues such as scratches, dents, worn and creased covers, folded page corners and minor liquid stains. All pages and the cover are intact, but the dust cover may be missing. Pages may include moderate to heavy amount of notes and highlighting, but the text is not obscured or unreadable. Page edges may have foxing  age related spots and browning . May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43779730636861,"sku":"BVV.0143118455.A","price":6.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/0143118455-0.jpg?v=1791407065","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/summertime-fiction-scenes-from-provincial-life","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}