Slow Man

📖 The Scoop

• Celebrated for his searing, intimate and unsparing storytelling, J. M. Coetzee—two time Booker Prize winner and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature—has remained an eminent figure in literature for almost half a century
• A wonderful opportunity for readers to rediscover the life and work of one of the world’s most renowned writers
• Slow Man, first published in 2005, was longlisted for the Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Miles Franklin. It tells the story of a French expatriate, recovering from the loss of a limb in a cycling accident, who falls in love with his carer
• Slow Man is the only Coetzee novel set in his adopted hometown of Adelaide
• New introduction by Andrew Fuhrmann to be extracted in a major print or online publication such as Age, Guardian and NZ Herald
• Advertising campaign in both print and online publications such as the Big Issue, the Monthly, Australian Book Review and across social media; bookmarks featuring WH Chong’s original cover artwork; giveaways and promotions with writer organisations such as the SA Writers Centre and journals such as Farrago, Voiceworks and Meanjin promoting the attractive price points and new introductions

Genre: Fiction / Literary (fancy, right?)