![]() OL500450W Page_number_confidence 92. Urn:lcp:youth0000coet:lcpdf:ab95e752-a426-496d-9aee-052d06a4f1ad John Maxwell Coetzee ( Ciudad del Cabo, Sudáfrica, 9 de febrero de 1940) es un escritor y novelista sudafricano nacionalizado australiano en 2006 reside desde 2002 en la ciudad de Adelaida. ![]() The book is composed of interviews between a biographer and five people who knew the late writer John Coetzee. ![]() Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 13:06:40 Boxid IA1913610 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Coetzee’s self-reflexive return, in Youth (2002), to his own ephebic preoccupation with metropolitan forms of poetic modernism. Summertime is a 2009 novel by South African -born Nobel laureate J. S ummertime is a fictionalized memoir by J. ![]()
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