The lives of animals

J. M. Coetzee

Original title: The Lives of Animals

earliest edition we have, 1999 Princeton University Press, 2016 144 pages

University Center for Human Values series

The idea of human cruelty to animals so consumes novelist Elizabeth Costello in her later years that she can no longer look another person in the eye: humans, especially meat-eating ones, seem to her to be conspirators in a crime of stupefying magnitude taking place on farms and in slaughterhouses, factories, and laboratories across the world. Costello's son, a physics professor, admires her literary achievements, b...

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Editions we hold

Lives of Animals edition · 2016 · Princeton University Press · 144 pages · 9781400883523
Lives of Animals edition · 2016 · Princeton University Press · 144 pages · 9780691173900
Las Vidas De Los Animales paperback · 2002 · Grijalbo Mondadori Sa · 9788439707066
The lives of animals ebook · 2001 · Princeton University Press · 130 pages · 9781400822829
The Lives of Animals (The University Center for Human Values Series) paperback · 2001 · Princeton University Press · 134 pages · 9780691070896
Das Leben der Tiere. hardcover · 2000 · Fischer (S.), Frankfurt · 93 pages · 9783100108173
The lives of animals edition · 2000 · Profile · 125 pages
The Lives of Animals hardcover · 1999 · Princeton University Press · 127 pages · 9780691004433

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