FROM THE HEART OF THE COUNTRY

Coetzee, J.M.

New York: Harper & Row, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. The first American edition, published as In the Heart of the Country in Great Britain. An experimental novel set in colonial South Africa, where a lonely sheepfarmer makes a bid for private salvation in the arms of a black concubine, while his daughter dreams of and executes a bloody revenge. Coetzee (b.1940), a South African and Australian novelist, is the recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. Octavo. Original orange paper-covered boards over a brown cloth spine with gilt-stamped titling. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Fine / Fine. Item #79136
ISBN: 006010841X

Price: $100.00