Disgrace, J. M. CoetzeeAfter years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressure to repent publicly, he resigns and retreats to his daughter Lucy's isolated smallholding. For a time, his daughter's influence and the natural rhythms

In his brief but notorious career

becomes a regular at a local coffee shop where she makes new friends

featuring Nathan Zuckerman and the story of Swede Levov

planning to either welcome the superior beings and help them take over a world seen as corrupt

Young Ian Murray fights his own battle between past and future

tackling issues of trust and honesty

one girl spoke out

Peterson journeys broadly

and the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center are cited as examples of Black Swan events

With a breakneck pace

Examples of these concepts include: Reciprocity

day after day