When photographer paul rayment loses his leg in a bicycle accident, he is forced to. How can you be a great writer if you are just an ordinary little man. Coetzee is known to be reclusive and avoids publicity to such an extent that he did not collect either of his two booker prizes in person. Paul rayment is on the threshold of a comfortable old age when a calamitous cycling accident results in the amputation o. Slow man is an intricate novel about identity, memory and desire, from a contemporary master. Users of luxembourgs public libraries have become accustomed to reading ebooks that they purchase and download on commercial platforms amazon kindle. Coetzee was the first author to win the booker prize twice and was awarded the nobel prize for literature in 2003. In slow man, we are introduced to a man named paul who was out biking one day in his town in australia and is hit by an erratic driver. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading slow man. Coetzee studied first at cape town and later at the university of texas at austin. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg.
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