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A novella by this author describes a flawed entanglement with the married Beatriz and a 72-year-old Polish concert pianist. (20[1])That novella by this author was published alongside short stories centered on a character who wrote a reimagining of Ulysses titled The House (20[1])on Eccles (20[2])Street. (20[6])A novel by this author ends with its main character giving a stray dog to Bev Shaw to (20[1])(*) euthanize. A lecturer in this author's The Lives of Animals titles a later novel in which that character travels around giving lectures as a celebrated 66-year-old writer. An affair with the student Melanie Isaacs causes David Lurie to be fired (10[1])in a novel by this author. For 10 points, name this South African novelist who wrote Elizabeth Costello and Disgrace. ■END■

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