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Book review: The White Tiger
Dear Dad “Never before in human history have so few owed so much to so many. A handful of men in this country have trained the remaining 99.9 per cent to exist in perpetual servitude; a servitude so strong that … Continue reading
Book review: The Humbling
Dear Dad The Humbling was presented as the 30th novel by one of America’s most honoured living authors, Philip Roth. As such, one approaches it with certain preliminary expectations – only to be totally underwhelmed. That is not to say readers familiar with Roth’s bold, … Continue reading
Book review: Summertime: Scenes From Provincial Life
Dear Dad It is 2007, and John Coetzee is dead. An Englishman, Mr Vincent, is working on his posthumous biography, unauthorised. Having never met Coetzee himself, the biographer has made arrangements to speak with five people who knew his subject personally: some intimately, some … Continue reading
Book review: Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life
Dear Dad A youth memoir from JM Coetzee was never going to be a heady account soaked in rock ’n roll ecstasy or soused in exuberant joy. The 2003 Nobel Laureate and twice winner of the Man Booker Prize is renown for his reclusion and … Continue reading
Book review: Boyhood: Scenes From Provincial Life
Dear Dad JM Coetzee – born in 1940, in Cape Town, South Africa — won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003 and was twice awarded the Booker Prize: for Life and Times of Michael K in 1983 and Disgrace in … Continue reading
Book review: A Sort of Life by Graham Greene
Dear Dad To Graham Greene, an autobiography must be A Sort of Life — for want of nothing else, it has to end before the author’s death. Here, it begins from Greene’s first memory and ends with the years of failure that ensued the success of his first published … Continue reading
