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false <![CDATA[Slow Man]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179515340m/926604.jpg 75400 22 A masterful new novel from one of the greatest writers alive. Paul Rayment is on the threshold of a comfortable old age when a calamitous cycling accident results in the amputation of a leg. Humiliated, his body truncated, his life circumscribed, he turns away from his friends. He hires a nurse named Marijana, with whom he has a European childhood in common: hers in Croatia, his in France. Tactfully and efficiently she ministers to his needs. But his feelings for her, and for her handsome teenage son, are complicated by the sudden arrival on his doorstep of the celebrated Australian novelist Elizabeth Costello, who threatens to take over the direction of his life and the affairs of his heart. Unflinching in its vision of suffering and generous in its portrayal of the spirit of care, Slow Man is a masterful work of fiction by one of the world’s greatest writers. From the Hardcover edition. 911609 book 2005 Slow Man total:1203|5:133|4:380|3:459|2:182|1:49| 1203 3975 1869 186 2 2 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 23 20:27:05 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 25 08:47:09 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 1 false false Fri Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Thu Jun 14 06:38:08 -0700 2007 Thu Jun 14 06:40:26 -0700 2007 Slow Man, we are invited to the world of Paul Rayment, an elderly Frenchman living in Australia who ends up with an amputated leg d...more...]]> 2 1 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 09 08:29:48 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 21 09:34:13 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jul 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 13:28:37 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 13:59:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false true Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Oct 10 21:26:21 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 16 17:07:39 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Tue Mar 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 25 16:56:27 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 31 20:13:13 -0700 2009 Disgrace and this book has a lot of the same elements. They both start in medias res at a terrible life-altering incident, the door from an old life to a new one and Coetzee uses this transition to examine the big questions in life, and ultimately as a way to seek redemption for the ...more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 09:44:53 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 25 13:00:41 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 1 0 false false Tue Apr 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 01 13:17:53 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 07 19:21:21 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 2 false false Thu Feb 05 09:36:38 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:36:38 -0800 2009 Is it the responsibility of Nobel Prize winners to showcase their brilliance or ensure a strong readership? If intelligent readers don't understand the author, what's the point? The Washington Post likened Slow Man to "an episode of The Twilight Zone by John Barth," with the feeling "...

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This book redeemed itself and became interesting again. It's about an older (60 yea...more...]]> 1 0 false false Mon May 04 07:13:27 -0700 2009 Fri May 08 16:24:02 -0700 2009 LATER.....
I simply could not finish this and that is saying a lot for me. I did like Coetzee's writing, the premise and the themes (aging, coping with a life altering injury, etc). What I cou...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jul 29 02:36:30 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 29 02:42:24 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Sep 30 12:05:38 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 22 12:38:41 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Aug 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 15 11:40:05 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 16 14:04:03 -0700 2008
The premise of Slow Man is good. Paul Rayment is hit by a c...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat May 03 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu May 08 08:01:03 -0700 2008 Thu May 08 08:01:19 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat May 03 18:59:05 -0700 2008 Sat May 10 21:13:31 -0700 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=926604