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Descriptions of Pain in Age of Iron

Posted on September 03, 2008

If the only sentence describing a book was that it contained harrowing descriptions of pain, most people would probably run the other way. But for a pain management psychiatrist, that phrase is a clear invitation to me to rush to the first page. I recently read an overview of the books written by South African author J. M. Coetzee, and his novel Age of Irondescribes the pain of apartheid, lonliness and cancer. (His most famous work might be Disgrace.)Here are some of the quotes describing the lead character s experience of physical pain:I was on my way out to the shops, in th...

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