Life & Times of Michael K

Contributor(s): Coetzee, J M (Author)

ISBN: 9780140074482

Publisher: Penguin Books

Binding Types:

Paperback

$16.00

Digicover (1-4 copies)

$28.95 (Final Price)

Readerbound (5-99 copies)

$27.75 (100+ copies: $27.00)

List/retail price:

$16.00

Pub Date: January 8, 1985

Dewey: FIC

LCCN: 84019085

Lexile Code: 0940

Features: Price on Product

Target Age Group: 18 to UP

Physical Info: 0.40" H x 7.60" L x 5.00" W ( 0.30 lbs) 184 pages

BISAC Categories:

Fiction | Literary | Biographical and Autofiction | War and Military

Accelerated Reader® Info

Quiz #:0000070604 ( Life & Times of Michael K)

Reading level: 6.30

Interest level: UG

Point value: 11.0

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: Set during a fictional civil war in South Africa, this book is symbolic that apartheid created in the lives of those so brutally affected by its implementation.

Review Quotes: "An outstanding achievment." --Nadine Gordimer

"A major work of crystalline intensity." --Los Angeles Times

"So purifying to the senses that one comes away feeling that one's eye has been sharpened, one's hearing vivified." --The New York Times Book Review

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