COETZEE, J.M [Philippa Coetzee].
Life & Times of Michael K.
New York: The Viking Press, 1984.
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First American Edition of Life & Times of Michael K; Inscribed by J.M. Coetzee to His Wife
First American edition of the author’s first Booker Prize-winning novel. Octavo, original half cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page to his first wife, “Philippa - love from JM.” Philippa Jubber and John Maxwell Coetzee were married in 1963. They had two children, Nicolas (1966-1989) and Gisela (b. 1968). Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Bascove. An exceptional association.
The South African novelist J.M. Coetzee is the recipient of the 1985 Prix Femina Étranger, the 1999 Book Prize, and the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. He has been described as "inarguably the most celebrated and decorated" living writer in the Anglosphere (Poplak, 2013). Life & Times of Michael K. won the 1983 Booker Prize for its depiction of an arduous journey from civil war-ridden urban South Africa to the chracter's mother's rural birthplace, during apartheid era, in the 1970-80s.
Life & Times of Michael K.
$5,800.00
In Stock