Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee "One doesn't step into anyone's

"One doesn't step into anyone's life

and not one of those stifling

who is hopscotching from one gritty New York restaurant to another

once abused and abandoned by her family

and when you finish the journal

Slow Man by J.M. Coetzee "One doesn't step into anyone'sPaul Rayment is on the threshold of a comfortable old age when a calamitous cycling accident results in the amputation of a leg. Humiliated, his body truncated, his life circumscribed, he turns away from his friends. He hires a nurse named Marijana, with whom he has a European childhood in common: hers in Croatia, his in France. Tactfully and efficiently she ministers to his needs. But his feelings for her, and for her handsome teenage son, are