Lacuna

Lacuna
Fiona Snyckers
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Trade Paperback
h210 x 135mm - 256pg
19 May 2022 UK
International import eta 10-19 days
9781787703742
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A feminist response to Coetzee' s masterwork Disgrace, and the moving story of a woman trying to put her life back togetherLucie Lurie is the victim of an act of terrible sexual violence, a gang rape at her father' s farmhouse in the Western Cape. In the grip of debilitating PTSD, she becomes obsessed with JM Coetzee, author of the celebrated Disgrace, a novel based on the attack she suffered. Withdrawn and fearful of crowds, Lucy nonetheless makes occasional forays into the world of men in her search for Coetzee himself. She means to confront him. The character in his novel is passive and almost entirely lacking agency. The real Lucy means to right the record, for she is the lacuna that Coetzee left in his novel the missing piece of the puzzle. She plans to put herself back in the story, to assert her agency and identity. For Lucy Lurie will be no man' s lacuna. "You are concerned for my sake, which I appreciate, you think you understand, but finally you don' t. Because you can' t. "LUCY LAURIE IN COETZEE' S DISGRACE
"Cutting, controversial and compelling, Lacuna explores pain and privilege. " * Diane Awerbuck * "A brilliant book whether or not read in the shadow of Coetzee' s original. " * Mail & Guardian SA * "Surprising, subtle, and deeply challenging. " * Kirkus Reviews (starred) * "A feminist metafiction, Lacuna picks up where J. Coetzee' s masterwork, Disgrace, leaves off. " * Book Culture * "Lacuna seems destined to cause a similar stir in America, where lit Twitter regularly erupts with heated discussion of appropriation and agency in storytelling. " * Chicago Review of Books * "Snyckers brings Lucy to life, warts and all, in a novel that is at turns exasperating, poignant, and unexpectedly funny. " * Drum Magazine * "A powerful and brilliant critique of both JM Coetzee' s Disgrace and contemporary South Africa. Snyckers makes the reader ponder deeply one minute and laugh loudly the next. A must read. " * Zukiswa Wanner *
Fiona Snyckers is the author of several YA. novels and the thriller, Now Following You. She is a regular contributor to The Times, The Sunday Times, and the Guardian' s Thought Leader website. She lives in Johannesburg.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781787703742
Published: 19 May 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Europa Editions (UK)
Publisher: Europa Editions (UK) Ltd
Format: Trade Paperback
Height: 210mm
Width: 135mm
Pages: 256

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