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A superb third installment of Coetzee’s heartbreaking fictional memoir (the first two being Boyhood Scenes from Provincial Life and Youth) will leave you breathless. A biographer is interviewing John Coetzee’s friends and former lovers after his death. Their non-flattering testimonies of John are the perfect example of Coetzee’s writing genius; in his spare, dry style that leaves no dry eye, he does the unthinkable; he lets us speak with the dead; he asks us to “free ourselves of what we love and hope the wound heals”; he shows us the world without love and compassion and ultimately, after leaving us bruised and aching, Coetzee pardons us with his kindhearted, glorious writing. Reading Summertimeis a holy experience – I bow to the divine Coetzee. --Aggie Z.
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