{"product_id":"the-master-of-petersburg-j-m-coetzee-9780140238105","title":"The Master of Petersburg","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eJ.M. Coetzee's latest novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Schooldays of Jesus\u003c\/i\u003e, is now available from Viking. \u003ci\u003eLate Essays: 2006-2016\u003c\/i\u003e will be available January 2018. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the fall of 1869 Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, lately a resident of Germany, is summoned back to St. Petersburg by the sudden death of his stepson, Pavel. Half crazed with grief, stricken by epileptic seizures, and erotically obsessed with his stepson's landlady, Dostoevsky is nevertheless intent on unraveling the enigma of Pavel's life. Was the boy a suicide or a murder victim? Did he love his stepfather or despise him? Was he a disciple of the revolutionary Nechaev, who even now is somewhere in St. Petersburg pursuing a dream of apocalyptic violence? As he follows his stepson's ghost--and becomes enmeshed in the same demonic conspiracies that claimed the boy--Dostoevsky emerges as a figure of unfathomable contradictions: naive and calculating, compassionate and cruel, pious and unspeakably perverse.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e J. M. Coetzee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0140238107\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780140238105\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Adult Hc\/Tr\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/1995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.77h x 5.08w x 0.68d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/19\/1995 pg. 44\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/03\/1995 pg. 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNY Times Notable Bks of Year\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/1995 pg. 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/02\/1995","brand":"J. M. Coetzee","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43992858427647,"sku":"9780140238105","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5d3b26f3-4488-460d-a8b0-98bc73f72966.jpg?v=1683321205","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-master-of-petersburg-j-m-coetzee-9780140238105","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}