Review: Joy Williams on J. M. Coetzee (Part Two)

[Read Part One of this post here]

Simón and the newly recruited “mother” Inés take David with the dog Bolivar to another town, Estrella, where they intend to begin anew, to start a new life. It is in Estrella that David becomes a student at señor Arroyo’s Academy, which is “devoted to the training of the soul through music and dance.” This training of th…