Description

FIRST EDITION OF LIFE & TIMES OF MICHAEL K, INSCRIBED BY J.M. COETZEE

COETZEE, John Maxwell. Life & Times of Michael K. London: Secker & Warburg, (1983). Octavo, original black paper boards, original dust jacket.

First edition of this Booker Prize-winning novel, inscribed on the title page: “For Matthew Raptis with best wishes, JM Coetzee.”

Written by the only winner of two Booker Prizes (for this novel and for Disgrace) and of the 2003 Nobel Prize for Literature, Life & Times of Michael K is a “subdued yet urgent lament for the sadness of a South Africa that has made dependents and parasites and prisoners of its own children, black and white” (New York Times).

A fine inscribed copy.