{"product_id":"dusklands-9780140241778","title":"Dusklands","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"J.M. Coetzee's vision goes to the nerve center of being.\"--Nadine Gordimer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe revolutionary first fiction by Nobel Prize Winner, J.M. Coetzee\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA shattering pair of novellas in the tradition of Conrad's \u003ci\u003eHeart of Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Dusklands\u003c\/i\u003e probes the links between the powerful and the powerless. \"Vietnam Project\" is narrated by a researcher investigating the effectiveness of United States propaganda and psychological warfare in Vietnam. The question of power is also explored in \"The Narrative of Jacobus Coetzee,\" the story of an eighteenth-century Boer frontiersman who vows revenge on the Hottentot natives because they have failed to treat him with the respect that he thinks a white man deserves. With striking intensity, J. M. Coetzee penetrates the twilight land of obsession, charting the nature on colonization as it seeks, in 1970 as in 1760, to absorb the wilds into the Western dusklands. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e2024 is the 50th Anniversary of the publication of \u003ci\u003eDusklands\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/1985\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780140241778\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.28lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.75h x 5.10w x 0.58d","brand":"J. M. Coetzee","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43838655463605,"sku":"9780140241778","price":18.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_e1c7eabc-554c-472c-91ef-2473575e6de4.jpg?v=1712026772","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/dusklands-9780140241778","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}