Author: J. M. Coeztee
Title: Summertime: Scenes from a Provincial Life
Description: London, Harvill Secker , 2009. First edition. Cloth. The first impression of this novel by J. M. Coeztee, shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2009. Complete with its unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression of this novel by Nobel laureate J. M. Coeztee. The third novel in a series of fictionalised memoirs, retracing Coetzee's life from the point of view of five people who have known him, mostly set in Cape Town during the 1970s. The first two novels in the trilogy are Boyhood and Youth. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2009, it is thought he did not win it due to the author being an already two-time winner of the award. Complete with its unclipped dust wrapper.  In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally, lovely. The dust wrapper is unclipped and excellent, with only faint minor spotting internally to the wraps, not affecting the externals. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Near Fine.

Keywords: first editions jm coetzee booker prize first editions jm coetzee None


See more books from our catalog: Modern Fiction