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    <![CDATA[Elizabeth Costello]]>
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    <![CDATA[  Since 1982, J. M. Coetzee has been dazzling the literary world. After eight   novels that   have won, among other awards, two Booker Prizes, and most recently, the Nobel   Prize,   Coetzee has once again crafted an unusual and deeply affecting tale. Told   through an   ingenious series of formal addresses, <em>Elizabeth Costello</em> is, on the   surface, the   story of a woman’s life as mother, sister, lover, and writer. Yet it is also a   profound and   haunting meditation on the nature of storytelling.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[There is no doubt that Coetzee is a unique and gifted writer; very cerebral - he won the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature, for goodness' sake - but despite the book being very thought-provoking, it wasn't one of my favourites.  The focus on animal rights in this novel (he's a huge advocate) was a litt...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36637183">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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