Disgrace

please this book only contains the 1st chapter of "Disgrace". this is a collectors item created to raise funds for AIDS charities. this is copy #132 of only 150 in the world. --------Volume II in the First Chapter Series is Disgrace, for which J. M. Coetzee became the first author to win the Booker Prize twice in 1999. Written with austere clarity the novel unflinchingly examines the absence of consolation in post-apartheid society and provides a sober vision of a new South Africa. In a recent poll undertaken by The Observer, 150 of the worlds greatest writers voted Disgrace the best novel written in the last 25 years. "John Coetzee himself is an appealing discreet, professorial, and soft-spoken. Wisely shunning the literary circus, he is our Invisible Man. He lives quietly; he rides his bike; he writes. Slowly, the work accumulates. He is a writer's writer, but he's a reader's writer, too. Which is how we return him to Observer readers, a great contemporary whose work we are lucky enough to find in our own time."The Observer, 8th October 2006. Each numbered book is individually signed by the author and features a signed and numbered print by South African artist Jo Ractliffe.