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Summertime: Scenes from a Provincial Life III by J. M. Coetzee is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Summertime: Scenes from a Provincial Life III about?
A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. He plans to focus on the years from 1972–1977 when Coetzee, in his thirties, is sharing a run-down cottage in the suburbs of Cape Town with his widowed father. This, the biographer senses, is the period when he was 'finding his feet as a writer'.Never having met Coetzee, he embarks on a series of interviews with people who were important to him – a married woman with whom he had an affair, his favourite cousin M
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It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- J. M. Coetzee
- Publisher
- Harvill Secker
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781846553189
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Memoir, Biography
- Rating
- 3.76 / 5 (3,890 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
Other editions & translations
- Summertime : Scenes from Provincial Life (2010)
- Summertime : Scenes from Provincial Life (2011)
- Summertime (2009)
- Lato : sceny z prowincjonalnego życia III (2010)
- Summertime: Scenes from a Provincial Life III (2010)
- Summertime (Center Point Platinum Reader's Circle (Large Print)) (2009)
- Summertime : Scenes from a Provincial Life (2009)
- Summertime : Scenes from Provincial Life (2009)
- Summertime (Center Point Platinum Reader's Circle (Large Print)) (2010)
- Verano : escenas de una vida de provincias III (2011)
- Une Vie de Province : Romans (2017)
- Une vie de province. Scènes de la vie d'un jeune garçon, Vers l'âge d'homme, L Été de la vie (2017)
- Sommer des Lebens Roman (2012)
- Summertime : Fiction (2009)
- Verano (Literatura Random House) (2009)
- Sommer des Lebens Roman (2014)
- L'été de la Vie (2010)
- Summertime: Scenes from a Provincial Life III (2016)
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