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Praise for "J.M. Coetzee and the Life of Writing"
With exemplary care, clarity and sensitivity David Attwell shows just how illuminating a literary biography can be. Zoe Wicomb, University of Strathclyde
A fascinating, highly readable and tremendously insightful account of the processes through which some of the greatest novels of our time came into being. Derek Attridge, University of York
David Attwell s "J.M. Coetzee and the Life of Writing" sheds startling new light on the relentless process of making and remaking that has produced the 2003 Nobel Prize-winner s oeuvre. Elleke Boehmer, University of Oxford"

Praise for "J.M. Coetzee and the Life of Writing
""This book will enrich the understanding of those already well-versed in the literature it requires close reading of Coetzee, and it rewards it."
"Kirkus Reviews
""A thorough...study that will please Coetzee scholars and devotees."" The Nation
" A profound meditation on what it means to take up writing as a way of life . . . It s safe to say that few other scholars know as much about Coetzee the man and the author as [Attwell] does. " "Los Angeles Review of Books"
""An excellent account of the genesis of Coetzee's fictions." "London Review of Books"
With exemplary care, clarity and sensitivity David Attwell shows just how illuminating a literary biography can be.
Zoe Wicomb, University of Strathclyde
A fascinating, highly readable and tremendously insightful account of the processes through which some of the greatest novels of our time came into being.
Derek Attridge, University of York
David Attwell s "J.M. Coetzee and the Life of Writing" sheds startling new light on the relentless process of making and remaking that has produced the 2003 Nobel Prize-winner s oeuvre.
Elleke Boehmer, University of Oxford"

Praise for J.M. Coetzee and the Life of Writing
"This book will enrich the understanding of those already well-versed in the literature it requires close reading of Coetzee, and it rewards it."
Kirkus Reviews
"A thorough...study that will please Coetzee scholars and devotees." The Nation
A profound meditation on what it means to take up writing as a way of life . . . It s safe to say that few other scholars know as much about Coetzee the man and the author as [Attwell] does. Los Angeles Review of Books
"An excellent account of the genesis of Coetzee's fictions." London Review of Books
With exemplary care, clarity and sensitivity David Attwell shows just how illuminating a literary biography can be.
Zoe Wicomb, University of Strathclyde
A fascinating, highly readable and tremendously insightful account of the processes through which some of the greatest novels of our time came into being.
Derek Attridge, University of York
David Attwell s J.M. Coetzee and the Life of Writing sheds startling new light on the relentless process of making and remaking that has produced the 2003 Nobel Prize-winner s oeuvre.
Elleke Boehmer, University of Oxford"

A moving, insightful biography of the Nobel Laureate and a study of J. M. Coetzee’s work, illuminating the creation of his exceptional novels

J. M. Coetzee is one of the world’s most intriguing authors. Compelling, razor-sharp, erudite: the adjectives pile up but the heart of the fiction remains elusive. Now, inJ. M. Coetzee and the Life of Writing, David Attwell explores the extraordinary creative processes behind Coetzee’s novels fromDusklands to The Childhood of Jesus. Using Coetzee’s manuscripts, notebooks and research papersrecently deposited at the Harry Ransom Center of the University of Texas at AustinAttwell produces a fascinating story. He shows convincingly that Coetzee’s work is strongly autobiographical, the memoirs being continuous with the fictions, and that his writing proceeds with never-ending self-reflection.

Having worked closely with him on Doubling the Point, a collection of Coetzee’s essays and interviews, and given early access to Coetzee’s archive, David Attwell is an engaging, authoritative source.The Life of Writing is a fresh, riveting take on one of the most important and opaque literary figures of our time. This moving account will change the way Coetzee is read, by teachers, critics, and general readers.