Slow Man by J. M. Coetzee

Slow Man

by J. M. Coetzee

Random House, 2005 [First AU Edition], ISBN 1741660688, hardcover, dust-jacket

Near Fine Condition, minor edge dn shelf wear, minor rubbing to edges and corners, no inscriptions, pages slightly age-toned, dust-jacket shows a little edge and shelf wear with a little rubbing to edges and corners, minor chipping to edges (see photographs)

"Paul Rayment is on the threshold of a comfortable old age when a calamitous cycling accident results in the amputation of a leg.  Humiliated, his body truncated, his life circumscribed, he turns away from his friends.
He hires a nurse named Marijana, with whom he has a European childhood in common: hers in Croatia, his in France.  tactfully and efficiently she ministers to his needs.  But his feelings for her, and for her handsome teenage son, are complicated by the sudden arrival on his doorstep of the celebrated Australian novelist Elizabeth Costello, who threatens to take over the direction of his life and the affairs of his heart."