Description
| Product ID: | 9780099268277 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Boyhood |
| Subtitle: | Scenes from provincial life |
| Authors: | Author: J.M. Coetzee |
| Page Count: | 176 |
| Subjects: | Autobiography: general, Autobiography: general, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Republic of South Africa, English |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Vintage |
| Publisher Name: | Vintage Publishing |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 1998-08-06 |
