EPISODE · Nov 13, 2014 · 7H 44M
Disgrace: A BBC Radio 4 Good Read (Authored by J.M. Coetzee)
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289208 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Disgrace: A BBC Radio 4 Good Read Author: J.M. Coetzee Narrator: Jack Klaff Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 44 minutes Release date: November 13, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.36 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 4.4 of Total 10 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: 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. By the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and twice winner of the Booker Prize.
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Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/289208 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Disgrace: A BBC Radio 4 Good Read Author: J.M. Coetzee Narrator: Jack Klaff Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 44 minutes Release date: November 13, 2014 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.36 of Total 14 Ratings of Narrator: 4.4 of Total 10 Genres: Historical Publisher's Summary: 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. By the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and twice winner of the Booker Prize.
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