Elizabeth Costello is a distinguished and aging Australian novelist whose life is revealed through a series of eight formal addresses. From an award-acceptance speech at a New England liberal arts college to a lecture on evil in Amsterdam and a sexually charged reading by the poet Robert Duncan, the author draws the reader toward its astonishing conclusion. The novel is, on its surface, the story of a woman's life as mother, sister, lover, and writer. Yet it is also a profound and haunting meditation on the nature of storytelling.
- ISBN10 0670031305
- ISBN13 9780670031306
- Publish Date 13 October 2003 (first published 1 January 1999)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 25 January 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Viking Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 230
- Language English