Petrus, Lucy's neighbour, does odd jobs for her. Lurie eventually gets used to the country life, especially when he starts assisting Bev Shaw, a friend of Lucy's, at her Animal Welfare Clinic. Lucie is a very strong woman, who knows what she wants. She grows fruit and vegetables which she sells in the market of a nearby town, and looks after other people's dogs in the kennels she runs. He resigns, and drives off to the Eastern Cape, where his lesbian daughter, Lucy, lives on an isolated farm. Lurie admits his guild before a university committee, but won’t apologise. When their affair comes out, it becomes a scandal. He gets into an affair with one of his students. That’s the part of the book were Lurie’s live changes. Every Thursday he visits a prostitute, but when he tries to get into her personal life, she doesn’t want to see him again. He has no real friends, but he has good contact whit his colleagues. In the first part of the book he is not really happy, but he feels like he’s got it all figured out. The main character in the book is David Lurie, a middle-aged Romantic poetry teacher. I couldn’t come up with any other genre, maybe a new genre should be invented, Describing, because it describes the life the characters live and the environment they live in so well. It describes the surroundings of a white divorced professor in Cape Town, and his daughters farm on the countryside of South Africa. The story takes place in South Africa, in the present.
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