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Name: Foe
Rating: 3 (1 reviews)
Author: J. M. Coetzee

While marooned on an island in the Atlantic, Sue Barton finds herself a character in a fiction novel. She spends a year with two other castaways, a mute Negro called Friday and Robinson Cruso.

First publish date: 1986

Authors: J. M. Coetzee

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