{"product_id":"elizabeth-costello","title":"Elizabeth Costello","description":"\u003cb\u003eContinuing Text's re-release of J.M. Coetzee's revered works with stylish new covers, \u003ci\u003eElizabeth Costello\u003c\/i\u003e is a modern classic by the great the great Nobel Prize winner accompanied by introduction from one of Australia's foremost writing critics and Coetzee experts.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction by Melinda Harvey\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\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\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElizabeth Costello 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. Published in 2003,\u003ci\u003e Elizabeth Costello\u003c\/i\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.","brand":"J. M. Coetzee","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43516741025853,"sku":null,"price":18.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/7689\/2989\/files\/9781922268440.jpg?v=1787571050","url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/elizabeth-costello","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}