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COETZEE**, J[ohn] M[axwell]: : THE LIVES OF ANIMALS. [Edited and with an introduction by Amy Gutmann.]

US.PRINCETON,NEW JERSEY.PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS,1999.

ISBN 0691004439.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.A volume from the Princeton Univesity,UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR HUMAN VALUES series,with Coetzee presenting fiction as a Tanner Lecture.] FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, matt,colour pictorial/photographic design by Amy R. Young,illustrated front panel of dw/dj with brown and b/w lettering,rear panel with author's b/w portrait photograph; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Majority of light creasing to top edges of dw/dj and minicule bumping with reciprocal creasing to head of spine/backstrip of same.Top+ fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain dark brown cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip,a brown+white striped headband and immaculate plain white endpapers. UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,3-127pp [paginated] includes an introduction by Amy Gutmann,2 chapters,Reflections from Marjorie Barber,Peter Singer,Wendy Doniger and Barbara Smuts, Contributors list and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,title separator page,and 2pp blanks at the rear of the book. The idea of human cruelty to animals so consumes novelist Elizabeth Costello in her later years that she can no longer look another person in the eye: humans,especially meat-eating ones,seem to her to be conspirators in a crime of stupefying magnitude taking place on farms and in slaughterhouses,factories,and laboratories across the world. Costello's son,a physics professor,admires her literary achievements,but dreads his mother's lecturing on animal rights at the college where he teaches.His colleagues resist her arguments that human reason is overrated and that the inability to reason does not diminish the value of life; his wife denounces his mother's vegetarianism as a form of moral superiority. At the dinner that follows her first lecture, the guests confront Costello with a range of sympathetic and sceptical reactions to issues of animal rights, touching on broad philosophical, anthropological,and religious perspectives. Painfully for her son,Elizabeth Costello seems offensive and flaky,but - dare he admit it? - strangely on target. Here the internationally renowned writer J. M. Coetzee uses fiction to present a powerfully moving discussion of animal rights in all their complexity.He draws us into Elizabeth Costello's own sense of mortality,her compassion for animals,and her alienation from humans,even from her own family.In his fable,presented as a Tanner Lecture sponsored by the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University, Coetzee immerses us in a drama reflecting the real-life situation at hand: a writer delivering a lecture on an emotionally charged issue at a prestigious university.Literature,philosophy, performance,and deep human conviction - Coetzee brings all these elements into play. As in the story of Elizabeth Costello,the Tanner Lecture is followed by responses treating the reader to a variety of perspectives, delivered by leading thinkers in different fields.Coetzee's text is accompanied by an introduction by political philosopher Amy Gutmann and responsive essays by religion scholar Wendy Doniger,primatologist Barbara Smuts,literary theorist Marjorie Garber,and moral philosopher Peter Singer,author of 'Animal Liberation'.Together the lecture- fable and the essays explore the palpable social consequences of uncompromising moral conflict and confrontation. An acclaimed novelist and literary critic,J. M. Coetzee is also Professor of English at the university of Cape Town.Author of several novels and volumes of criticism as well as memoirs and translations.For his fiction he has won the following prizes the Booker Prize,the Prix Femina and the Jerusalem Prize and the Lannan Award in 1998. Please contact seller,because of the weight/ value of this item for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.

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