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'A Book of Friends is a collection of essays, stories, poems and artworks compiled in honour of J. M. Coetzee on his eightieth birthday. It includes contributions from some of Coetzee's friends and contemporaries, and is edited by Dorothy Driver, his partner over the past four decades.
'Stretching from the Americas to South Africa to Australia, A Book of Friends pays homage to friendship, literature and the work of one of the most extraordinary writers of our time.' (Publication summary)
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The Man Within
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 15 February 2020; (p. 20)
— Review of A Book of Friends : In Honour of J. M. Coetzee on His 80th Birthday 2020 anthology essay'Friends of JM Coetzee have marked the Nobel laureate’s 80th birthday in ways that suggest his unique place in the literary world, writes Geordie Williamson'
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The Man Within
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 15 February 2020; (p. 20)
— Review of A Book of Friends : In Honour of J. M. Coetzee on His 80th Birthday 2020 anthology essay'Friends of JM Coetzee have marked the Nobel laureate’s 80th birthday in ways that suggest his unique place in the literary world, writes Geordie Williamson'
