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100	1		_aCoetzee, J. M. _d(1940-)
245	1	0	_aSlow man _c/ J.M. Coetzee
260			_aNew York _b: Viking _c, c2005.
300			_a265 p. _c; 22 cm.
520			_aWhen photographer Paul Rayment loses his leg in a bicycle accident, his solitary life is irrevocably changed whether he likes it or not. Stubbornly refusing a prosthesis, Paul returns to his bachelor's apartment in Adelaide, Australia, uncomfortable with his new dependency on others. He is given to bouts of hopelessness and resignation as he looks back on his sixty years of life, but his spirits are lifted when he finds himself falling in love with Marijana, his practical, down-to-earth Croatian nurse who is struggling to raise her family in a foreign land. As Paul contemplates how to win her heart, he is visited by the mysterious writer Elizabeth Costello, who challenges Paul to take an active role in his own life.
650		4	_aAmputees _v--Fiction
650		4	_aWomen novelists, Australian _v--Fiction
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