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Toronto: Stoddart , 1986. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Previous owner's name penned to the title-top, occasional marginal pencil dots throughout, very minor lean to the spine, very light shelf rubbing, little wear overall. 'When Susan Barton is marooned on an island in the middle of the Atlantic she enters the world of two men. One is a mute negro called Friday; the other is Robinson Cruso. The island is a society already at work. Its rules are strict and simple: survival, industry and order. Cruso is master and Friday is slave. . . Back in London, with Friday in tow as evidence of her strange adventure, she approaches the author Daniel Defoe. But Foe is less interested in the history of the island than in the story of Susan herself, and battle lines are drawn between writer and subject. . . [The author's] new novel is a work of austere, exquisite brilliance. Fable, allegory and literary palimpsest, it illuminates and interprets the…
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- Title Foe
- Author Coetzee, J.M
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- Edition First Canadian E
- Publisher Stoddart, Toronto
- Date 1986
- ISBN 9780773721029
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Foe
by Coetzee, J.M.
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