Description
After years of 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 harmonize 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.
Info
ISBN: 9780099289524
Published Date: May 1, 2000
Publisher: Vintage Books
Language: English
Page Count: 219
Size: 7.84" l x 5.05" w x 0.60" h
Category
Fiction
Subject
General