A rich, funny and deeply affecting autobiographical novel from one of the world's great writers, completing a trilogy which began with }Boyhood{ and }Youth{. 'It is wonderful stuff. But then, Coetzee is wonderful: edgy, black, remorselessly human, witty and often outright funny... }Summertime{ is offbeat and deliberate, elusive and truthful' }Irish Times A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. He embarks on a series of interviews with people who were important to Coetzee - a married woman with whom he had an affair, his favourite cousin Margot, a Brazilian dancer whose daughter had English lessons with him, former friends and colleagues.
