{"id":21,"date":"2007-01-18T14:24:07","date_gmt":"2007-01-18T19:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danversreads.wordpress.com\/2007\/01\/18\/disgrace-by-jm-coetzee\/"},"modified":"2007-01-18T14:24:07","modified_gmt":"2007-01-18T19:24:07","slug":"disgrace-by-jm-coetzee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/danversreads.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/01\/disgrace.gif\" title=\"disgrace.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/danversreads.files.wordpress.com\/2007\/01\/disgrace.thumbnail.gif\" alt=\"disgrace.gif\" \/><\/a>This is the latest selection for the Tuesday Morning Book Group here at the library.  I have read this myself and it was a great book, but not for the faint of heart. It is about post-apartheid South Africa after all. This book won the 1999 Booker Prize.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.readinggroupguides.com\/guides3\/disgrace1.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Click<\/a> here for the Reading Group Guide.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a snippet from an interesting review on Salon.com<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<font face=\"times new roman, times, serif\" size=\"3\"><strong>I<\/strong>n his sober, searing and even cynical little book &#8220;Disgrace,&#8221; J.M. Coetzee tells us something we all suspect and fear &#8212; that political change can do almost nothing to eliminate human misery&#8230;.<\/font><font face=\"times new roman, times, serif\" size=\"3\">&#8220;Disgrace&#8221; is Coetzee&#8217;s first book to deal explicitly with post-apartheid South Africa, and the picture it paints is a cheerless one that will comfort no one, no matter what race, nationality or viewpoint.&#8221;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/books\/review\/1999\/11\/05\/coetzee\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> for the rest of the review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the latest selection for the Tuesday Morning Book Group here at the library. I have read this myself and it was a great book, but not for the faint of heart. It is about post-apartheid South Africa after all. This book won the 1999 Booker Prize. Click here for the Reading Group Guide.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-l","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}