{"product_id":"elizabeth-costello-by-j-m-coetzee-9781922268440","title":"Elizabeth Costello","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContinuing Text's re-release of J.M. Coetzee's revered works with stylish new covers, \u003cem\u003eElizabeth Costello\u003c\/em\u003e is a modern classic by the great Nobel Prize winner, accompanied by an introduction from one of Australia's foremost writing critics and Coetzee experts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIntroduction by Melinda Harvey\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBelief may be no more, in the end, than a source of energy, like a battery which one clips into an idea to make it run.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eElizabeth Costello\u003c\/em\u003e is a distinguished Australian author in her mid-sixties, celebrated for a novel she wrote decades earlier. In a series of eight 'lessons'—the transcripts of lectures and speeches—she examines such subjects as animal rights, evil, and the afterlife.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePublished in 2003, \u003cem\u003eElizabeth Costello\u003c\/em\u003e was the first book J. M. Coetzee published in his new home of Australia. With its blurring of the lines between fiction and non-fiction, its rigorous interrogation of weighty ideas, and moments of bleak comedy, the novel issued a new and complex challenge to Coetzee's readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46530182054124,"sku":"9781922268440","price":22.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/11095523482872.jpg?v=1749251450","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/elizabeth-costello-by-j-m-coetzee-9781922268440","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}