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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-100670813982
ISBN-139780670813988
eBay Product ID (ePID)1321855
Product Key Features
Publication Year1987
Book TitleFoe
TopicGeneral
Number of Pages160 Pages
LanguageEnglish
GenreFiction
AuthorJ.M. Coetzee
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight12 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN86-040267
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal823
SynopsisWith the same electrical intensity of language and insight that he brought to Waiting for the Barbarians and The Master of Petersburg, J.M. Coetzee reinvents the story of Robinson Crusoe-and in so doing, directs our attention to the seduction and tyranny of storytelling itself In 1720 the eminent man of letters Daniel Foe is approached by Susan Barton, lately a castaway on a desert island. She wants him to tell her story, and that of the enigmatic man who has become her rescuer, companion, master and sometimes lover: Cruso. Cruso is dead, and his manservant, Friday, is incapable of speech. As she tries to relate the truth about him, the ambitious Barton cannot help turning Cruso into her invention. For as narrated by Foe-as by Coetzee himself-the stories we thought we knew acquire depths that are at once treacherous, elegant, and unexpectedly moving.