Acknowledgments
I am grateful to generous friends and colleagues who have read all or part of this book and made suggestions. In particular, I would like to thank Sue Sheridan, Robert Phiddian, and Debra Zott. For more general moral support, I would like to acknowledge Joost Daalder, Aliese Millington, Graham Tulloch, and Robert Lumsden.
Adele Lenz and Ralph Shlomowitz were both helpful with questions regarding the South African background of Coetzee's work.
Thanks are also due to all at Cambria Press who have made it such an easy and pleasant experience to produce this book.
I also thank J. M. Coetzee for his gracious permission to quote from his works, where the extracts quoted exceed the fair use provisions of copyright legislation.