| Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life Contributor(s): Coetzee, J. M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 014026566X ISBN-13: 9780140265668 Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr OUR PRICE: $22.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1998 Annotation: J.M. Coetzee grew up in a new development north of Cape Town, with a father he despised and a mother he both adored and resented. Bold and telling, this masterly evocation of a young boy's life under apartheid is the book Coetzee's many admirers have been waiting for. "Exceptional. . . . A scorched tale of race, caste, shame, and--at times--hilarious bewilderment".--THE NEW YORKER. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - History | Africa - South - Republic Of South Africa - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 97012360 |
| Series: Scenes from Provincial Life |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5" W x 7.7" (0.35 lbs) 176 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southern Africa - Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Fiercely revealing, bluntly unsentimental. . .a telling portrait of the artist as a young man that illuminates the hidden source of his art. --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018. Coetzee grew up in a new development north of Cape Town, tormented by guilt and fear. With a father he despised, and a mother he both adored and resented, he led a double life--the brilliant and well-behaved student at school, the princely despot at home, 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 high 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. |