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.
| ISBN: | 9780099268277 |
| Publication date: | 6th August 1998 |
| Author: | J M Coetzee |
| Publisher: | Vintage an imprint of Random House |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 166 pages |
| Genres: |
Autobiography: writers Memoirs Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers |
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.
Boyhood features in the following genres: Autobiography: writers, Memoirs, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
Boyhood is available in Paperback
Boyhood was written by J M Coetzee and published by Vintage an imprint of Random House
Boyhood has 166 pages
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