Disgrace
  • Published:
    Nov-1999 (Hardcover)
    Nov-2000 (Paperback)
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook / Audio
  • Main Genre:
    Literary
  • Time Period:
    20th Century Contemporary
  • Pages:
    220
  • Age Level:
    18 & up
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After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressure to repent publicly, he resigns and retreats to his daughter Lucy's isolated smallholding.

For a time, his daughter's influence and the natural rhythms of the farm promise to harmonise his discordant life. But the balance of power in the country is shifting. He and Lucy become victims of a savage and disturbing attack which brings into relief all the faultlines in their relationship.
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    •  
    • Nov-2000
    • Penguin
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0140296409
    • ISBN13: 9780140296402
    •  
    • Jan-1999
    • Vintage (UK)
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0099289520
    • ISBN13: 9780099289524
    •  
    • Sep-2005
    • Penguin
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0143036378
    • ISBN13: 9780143036371
    •  
    • Sep-2008
    • Penguin
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0143115286
    • ISBN13: 9780143115281
    •  
    • Dec-2008
    • Vintage (UK)
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0099526832
    • ISBN13: 9780099526834
    • First Edition
    • Nov-1999
    • Viking
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0670887315
    • ISBN13: 9780670887316
    •  
    • Mar-2000
    • Random House (UK)
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0436204894
    • ISBN13: 9780436204890
    •  
    • Jan-2017
    • Vintage
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1409027279
    • ISBN13: 9781409027270
    •  
    • Jan-2017
    • Penguin
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1524705462
    • ISBN13: 9781524705466
    •  
    • Jan-2017
    • Penguin Books
    • eBook (Kindle)
    •  
    • Jan-2017
    • Text Publishing
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1925774627
    • ISBN13: 9781925774627
    •  
    • Aug-2000
    • Chivers Audio Books
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 0754053822
    • ISBN13: 9780754053828
    •  
    • Jun-2008
    • Penguin Audio
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 014314345X
    • ISBN13: 9780143143451
    •  
    • Jan-2009
    • Penguin Audiobooks
    • Audible
    •  
    • Jan-2015
    • Random House Audiobooks
    • Audible
    •  
    • May-2000
    • Thorndike Press
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0786224797
    • ISBN13: 9780786224791
    • Large Print



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