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Key ideas from the book
- A biographer builds a portrait of the late writer John Coetzee through interviews with people who knew him.
- The accounts focus on Coetzee’s life in his thirties in Cape Town.
- Different recollections contribute to an image of a reserved and bookish man.
- The novel explores moral struggles and the difficulty of forming meaningful connections.
- Readers encounter an imagined life examined with a critical, unsparing perspective.
About Summertime by J.M. Coetzee
In Summertime, J.M. Coetzee imagines a young English biographer assembling a portrait of the late South African writer John Coetzee. The biographer focuses on Coetzee’s thirties, when he lived in a modest Cape Town cottage with his widowed father, and interviews five people who knew him.
Their accounts present a reserved, bookish man whose efforts to connect with others are complicated by painful moral questions and the demands of caring for another person. Published in 2009, this work of literary fiction will interest readers of South African literature and novels that examine how a life is remembered and understood.
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