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03102aam a2200505 i 4500 001 52054E7E61B211EE96A426B62DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231003010052 008 230906t20232023nyu e 000 1 eng d 020 $a 1324093862 020 $a 9781324093862 (hardcover) 035 $a (OCoLC)1396227690 040 $a NjBwBT $b eng $c OQX $e rda $d OQX $d YDX $d BDX $d HQD $d IMT $d IL2 $d IUK $d RNL $d OCLCO $d SILO 050 14 $a PR9369.3.C58 $b P65 2023 082 04 $a 823/.914 $2 23/eng/20230901 100 1 $a Coetzee, J. M., $d 1940- $e author. 245 14 $a The Pole / $c J.M. Coetzee. 260 $a New York, NY : $b Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company, $c [2023] 300 $a 167 pages ; $c 22 cm. 520 $a "Exacting yet unpredictable, pithy yet complex, Coetzee's The Pole tells the story of Wittold Walccyzkiecz, a vigorous, extravagantly white-haired pianist and interpreter of Chopin who becomes infatuated with Beatriz, a stylish patron of the arts, after she helps organize his concert in Barcelona. Although Beatriz, a married woman, is initially unimpressed by Wittold and his "gleaming dentures," she soon finds herself pursued and ineluctably swept into his world. As the journeyman performer sends her countless letters, extends invitations to travel, and even visits her husband's summer home in Mallorca, their unlikely relationship blossoms, though only on Beatriz's terms. The power struggle between them intensifies, eventually escalating into a full-fledged battle of the sexes. But is it Beatriz who limits their passion by paralyzing her emotions? Or is it Wittold, the old man at his typewriter, trying to force into life his dream of love? Reinventing the all-encompassing love of the poet Dante for his Beatrice, Coetzee exposes the fundamentally enigmatic nature of romance, showing how a chance meeting between strangers--even "a Pole, a man of seventy, a vigorous seventy," and a stultified "banker's wife who occupies her days in good works"--can suddenly change everything" -- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Pianists $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Man-woman relationships $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Adultery $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Infatuation $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Romance fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Psychological fiction. $2 lcgft 941 $a 17 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20240509013743.0 952 $l GHPD771 $d 20240412011008.0 952 $l GUPF501 $d 20240411010233.0 952 $l SFPH074 $d 20240314025753.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240305043602.0 952 $l DMPC403 $d 20240217010128.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20240127012135.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20240125012035.0 952 $l BRPD251 $d 20240119021116.0 952 $l RFPC397 $d 20231216010349.0 952 $l HPPD845 $d 20231115010243.0 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20231103010136.0 952 $l S1PD771 $d 20231102014249.0 952 $l DBPE173 $d 20231014010141.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20231005013400.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20231005010503.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20231003012846.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=52054E7E61B211EE96A426B62DECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search