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BOYHOOD
SCENES FROM PROVINCIAL LIFE |
| By: |
J. M. Coetzee |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0099268272 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780099268277 |
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| Publisher: |
VINTAGE PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
6 August, 1998 |
| Pages: |
176 |
| Description: |
A first volume of memoirs, revisiting the South Africa of half a century ago, of a boy growing up in a small country town with a father he could not respect and a mother he adored. Coetzee evokes the tensions, delights and terrors of childhood, in a world of unexplained rules he knew he must obey. |
| Synopsis: |
In Boyhood, J. M. Coetzee revisits the South Africa of half a century ago, to write about his childhood and interior life. Boyhood's young narrator grew up in a small country town. With a father he imitated but could not respect, and a mother he both adored and resented, he picked his way through a world that refused to explain its rules, but whose rules he knew he must obey. Steering between these contradictions, Boyhood evokes the tensions, delights and terrors of childhood with startling, haunting immediacy. Coetzee examines his young self with the dispassionate curiosity of an explorer rediscovering his own early footprints, and the account of his progress is bright, hard and simply compelling. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Vintage |
| Prizes: |
Short-listed for South African Booksellers' Choice Award 1998 |
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Returnable |