Book #15143

Elizabeth Costello - 1st American Edition/1st Printing

J. M. Coetzee
Book #15143 Elizabeth Costello - 1st American Edition/1st Printing. J. M. Coetzee.
Elizabeth Costello - 1st American Edition/1st Printing

Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Publisher: New York: Viking Penguin, 2003.
ISBN: 0670031305

A handsome first (stated) American edition/first printing in unread Fine condition in alike dustjacket, SIGNED by author and Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee on the title page.

This ingenious novel is structured around a collection of essays, all but two previously published, embedded within the story of aging Australian novelist Elizabeth Costello. Costello (who first appeared in Coetzee's 1999 volume "The Lives of Animals") gives her longest and most passionate speech in defense of animal rights, one of eight "lessons" the reader receives on what it means to be human; 8vo; Signed by Author.

Price: $320.00

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