{"product_id":"2026100006860-secondhand-elizabeth-costello-eight-lessons-signed","title":"Elizabeth Costello: Eight Lessons (SIGNED)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good                          \u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed                  \u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Signed\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Light creasing to corners. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA work of profound philosophical fiction, Elizabeth Costello: Eight Lessons presents the life and mind of Elizabeth Costello, an aging Australian novelist whose intellectual journey unfolds across a series of formal lectures and charged encounters. Structured as eight discrete lessons, the novel chronicles Costello's confrontations with questions of animal rights, evil, the nature of realism, and the moral responsibilities of the writer, blurring the boundary between fiction and essay with masterful precision. Coetzee's prose is cool, exacting, and deeply unsettling, forcing the reader to sit with arguments that resist easy resolution and characters who refuse simple sympathy. The narrative illustrates how ideas themselves can be dramatic, transforming academic discourse into urgent, sometimes anguished, human experience. A landmark of contemporary literary fiction, it stands as one of the most intellectually daring works of the early twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48887896801499,"sku":"2026100006860-SECONDHAND","price":150.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/f8cfcdf4-0f9d-4641-841b-3ffe99d3cd07.png?v=1781748204","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100006860-secondhand-elizabeth-costello-eight-lessons-signed","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}