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Slow man

Dependent on others after losing his leg in an accident, sixty-year-old Paul Rayment finds himself falling in love with a down-to-earth Croatian nurse and encouraged by a mysterious writer to take an activist role in his own life.

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  • "Slow man"@it
  • "Slow man"
  • "Slow man"@he
  • "Slow man"@pl

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  • "Dependent on others after losing his leg in an accident, sixty-year-old Paul Rayment finds himself falling in love with a down-to-earth Croatian nurse and encouraged by a mysterious writer to take an activist role in his own life."@en
  • "On the threshold of a comfortable old age, Paul Rayment turns away from his friends when an accident results in the amputation of a leg. But with the arrival of his personal nurse, as well that of a celebrated novelist, Paul's life once more takes on an unpredictable course."@en
  • "Amputé d'une jambe à la suite d'un accident de la route, le photographe sexagénaire Paul Rayment refuse la prothèse et engage une auxiliaire de vie, Marijana Jokic, immigrée croate, ancienne restauratrice de tableaux reconvertie dans les soins aux handicapés. Paul s'éprend d'elle et offre de prendre en charge toute sa famille, mais il est éconduit."
  • "Paul Rayment is on the threshold of a comfortable old age when a calamitous cycling accident results in the amputation of a leg. Humiliated, his body truncated, his life circumscribed, he turns away from his friends. He hires a nurse named Marijana, with whom he has a European childhood in common: hers in Croatia, his in France. Tactfully and efficiently she ministers to his needs. But his feelings for her, and for her handsome teenage son, are complicated by the sudden arrival on his doorstep of the celebrated Australian novelist Elizabeth Costello, who threatens to take over the direction of his life and the affairs of his heart."@en
  • "Paul Rayment is on the threshold of a comfortable old age when a calamitous cycling accident results in the amputation of a leg. Humiliated, his body truncated, his life circumscribed, he turns away from his friends. He hires a nurse named Marijana, with whom he has a European childhood in common: hers in Croatia, his in France. Tactfully and efficiently she ministers to his needs. But his feelings for her, and for her handsome teenage son, are complicated by the sudden arrival on his doorstep of the celebrated Australian novelist Elizabeth Costello, who threatens to take over the direction of his life and the affairs of his heart."
  • "On the threshold of a comfortable old age, Paul Rayment turns away from his friends when an accident results in the amputation of a leg. But with the arrival of his personal nurse, as well that of a celebrated novelist, Paul's life once more takes on an unpredictable course. Originally published: London: Secker & Warburg, 2005."@en
  • ""When photographer Paul Rayment loses his leg in a bicycle accident, his solitary life is irrevocably changed. Stubbornly refusing a prosthesis, Paul returns to his bachelor's apartment in Adelaide, uncomfortable with his new dependency on others. He is given to bouts of hopelessness as he looks back on his sixty years of life, but his spirits rise when he finds himself falling in love with Marijana, his practical, down-to-earth Croatian nurse ... As Paul contemplates how to win her heart, he is visited by the mysterious writer Elizabeth Costello, who challenges Paul to take an active role in his own life"--Jacket."
  • ""When photographer Paul Rayment loses his leg in a bicycle accident, his solitary life is irrevocably changed. Stubbornly refusing a prosthesis, Paul returns to his bachelor's apartment in Adelaide, uncomfortable with his new dependency on others. He is given to bouts of hopelessness as he looks back on his sixty years of life, but his spirits rise when he finds himself falling in love with Marijana, his practical, down-to-earth Croatian nurse ... As Paul contemplates how to win her heart, he is visited by the mysterious writer Elizabeth Costello, who challenges Paul to take an active role in his own life"--Jacket."@en
  • ""Hombre lento lleva a cabo una meditación acerca de lo que nos convierte en seres humanos, a la vez que reflexiona sobre la vejez. La lucha de Paul Rayment con su supuesta debilidad se traduce a traves de la voz clara y sin tapujos de J.M. Coetzee; el resultado es una historia profundamente conmovedora sobre el amor y la mortalidad que deslumbra al lector en cada página" --Cubierta."@es

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  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Vietnamese fiction"
  • "South African fiction (English)"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung - Adelaide - Beinamputation - Krankenschwester - Radfahrerunfall - Älterer Mann"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Powieść południowo-afrykańska w języku angielskim"
  • "Powieść południowo-afrykańska w języku angielskim"@pl
  • "Uncorrected proofs (Printing)"@en
  • "Jihoafrické romány (anglicky)"
  • "Contemporary fiction"@en
  • "Roman sud-africain de langue anglaise"
  • "Love stories"
  • "Translations"
  • "Powieść południowoafrykańska"@pl
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@he
  • "Didactic fiction - gsafd"
  • "Didactic fiction"
  • "Didactic fiction"@en
  • "Advance copies (Publishing)"@en
  • "Large type books"@en

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  • "Powolny człowiek"@pl
  • "Powolny człowiek"
  • "슬로우맨 = Slow man"
  • "Slow man"@it
  • "Slow man"@en
  • "Slow man"
  • "Home lent"
  • "Home lent"@en
  • "Yavas adam : roman"
  • "Slow man : [a novel]"
  • "Spor čovek"
  • "Медленный человек"
  • "Homem lento"
  • "Medlennyĭ chelovek"
  • "Hombre lento"@en
  • "Hombre lento"@es
  • "Hombre lento"
  • "Yavaş adam = Slow man"
  • "איש איטי"
  • "慢人"
  • "O homem lento : romance"
  • "Hidas mies"
  • "Hidas mies"@fi
  • "Man ren = Slow man"
  • "Pomalý muž"
  • "Sŭllou maen = Slow man"
  • "L'homme ralenti : roman"
  • "Nguoi cham"
  • "Henas argos anthrōpos"
  • "Langsom mand"@da
  • "Langsom mand"
  • "L'homme ralenti : Roman"
  • "<&gt"@he
  • "Zeitlupe"
  • "Langzame man"
  • "Người chậm"
  • "遅い男"
  • "Slow Man"
  • "Slow Man"@en
  • "Zeitlupe : Roman"
  • "Ish iṭi"
  • "Man ren"
  • "I ngadalti : roman"
  • "Langsom mann"
  • "Aeglane mees : romaan"
  • "L'homme ralenti"
  • "慢人 = Slow man"
  • "Osoi otoko"@ja
  • "Osoi otoko"
  • "Den långsamme"
  • "Den långsamme"@sv
  • "Lėtas žmogus"

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