Boyhood : scenes from provincial life / J.M. Coetzee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coetzee, J. M., 1940-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Coetzee, J. M., 1940---Childhood and youth.

Coetzee, J. M.

Coetzee, J. M., 1940-.

Authors, South African--20th century--Biography.

Authors, South African.

Apartheid--South Africa.

Apartheid.

South Africa.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

166 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 1998.

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.

Other Format:

Online version: Coetzee, J.M., 1940- Boyhood.

ISBN:

014026566X

9780140265668

0670872202

9780670872206

OCLC:

39975046