01426cam a2200289 4500 154728045 TxAuBib 20140131120000.0 030806s2003||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2003060849 9780670031306 alk. paper 0670031305 alk. paper TxAuBib Coetzee, J. M., 1940- Elizabeth Costello / J.M. Coetzee. 1st American ed. New York : Viking, 2003. 233 p. : hrd. ; 22 cm. Elizabeth Costello is a distinguished and aging Australian novelist whose life is revealed through a series of eight formal addresses. From an award-acceptance speech at a New England liberal arts college to a lecture on evil in Amsterdam and a sexually charged reading by the poet Robert Duncan, the author draws the reader toward its astonishing conclusion. The novel is, on its surface, the story of a woman's life as mother, sister, lover, and writer. Yet it is also a profound and haunting meditation on the nature of storytelling. 20140131. Authorship Fiction. Australians Foreign countries Fiction. Storytelling Fiction. Women authors Fiction. Australia Fiction. BSBPL