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Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee (Disgrace) ends his fictionalized-memoir trilogy by imagining a biographer piecing together his life through interviews with four women who knew him as a lonely soul in his 30s. It's a bracing read: no one critiques Coetzee better than he does.