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And the one person you trust may be telling you only half the story

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selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize

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Disgrace Angsana Books burned man who lies inAfter years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressue to repent publicly, he resigns and retreats to his daughter Lucy's isolated small holding. For a time, his daughter's influence and natural rhythms of