Coetzee, John M: Summertime Scenes from Provincial Life

A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. Never having met Coetzee, he embarks on a series of interviews with people who were important to him - a married woman with whom he had an affair, his favourite cousin Margot, a Brazilian dancer whose daughter had English lessons with him. From their testimony emerges a portrait of the young Coetzee as an awkward, bookish individual with little talent for opening himself to others. Sometimes heartbreaking, often very funny, SUMMERTIME completes the majestic trilogy of fictionalised memoir begun with BOYHOOD and YOUTH.