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Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life Book

Until writing this book, the author of Waiting for the Barbarians and other acclaimed novels has remained determinedly private about the personal experiences that sparked his writing. In Boyhood, describing his youth in the third person, J.M. Coetzee traces the halting struggle toward maturity of a sensitive, bookish boy contemptuous of his weak father who yearns--and fears--to loosen a powerful attachment to his mother. He evokes the narrowness and cruelty of South African society in the years following the second world war with the same austere yet passionate prose that distinguishes his fiction.Read More

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  • 0436204487
  • 9780436204487
  • J.M. Coetzee
  • 25 September 1997
  • Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 192
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