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Author Coetzee, J. M., 1940-

Title Boyhood : scenes from provincial life / J.M. Coetzee
Edition Vintage edition
Published New York : Viking, 1997

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Description 166 pages ; 23 cm
Summary Coetzee has been reluctant to talk about himself. Now, revisiting the South Africa of a half century ago, he writes about his childhood and his own interior life. Boyhood's young narrator grew up in a new development north of Cape Town, tormented by guilt and fear. With a father he did not respect, and a mother he both adored and resented, he led a double life - at school the brilliant and well-behaved student, at home the princely despot, always terrified of losing his mother's love. His first encounters with literature, the awakenings of sexual desire, and a growing awareness of apartheid left him with baffling questions; and only in his love of the veld ("farms are places of freedom, of life") could he find a sense of belonging. Bold and telling, this masterly evocation of a young boy's life is the book Coetzee's many admirers have been waiting for, but never could have expected
Notes Cover title : Boyhood - a memoir
Subject Coetzee, J. M., 1940- author
Coetzee, J. M., 1940-
Authors, South African -- 20th century -- ?́ƠBiography
Authors, South African -- 20th century -- Biography.
Genre/Form Biography.
Belletristische Darstellung
Biographies.
LC no. 97012360
ISBN 014026566X paperback
0670872202 alkaline paper
Other Titles Scenes from provincial life
Boyhood : a memoir