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Revisiting the South Africa of half a century ago, Coetzee examines his young self, bringing the diagnostic skills of the mature novelist to bear on his own past. With a father he could not respect, and a mother he resented, he picked his way through a world that refused to explain its rules.
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Until writing this book, the author of Waiting for the Barbarians and other acclaimed novels has remained determinedly private about the personal experiences that sparked his writing. In Boyhood, describing his youth in the third person, J.M. Coetzee traces the halting struggle toward maturity of a sensitive, bookish boy contemptuous of his weak father who yearns--and fears--to loosen a powerful attachment to his mother. He evokes the narrowness and cruelty of South African society in the years following the second world war with the same austere yet passionate prose that distinguishes his fiction.
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"The best description of a childhood I have ever read." -- "The Times "As funny, cruel and terrifying as life itself. It is also intense and elegant, clearly the product of the complex, subtle imagination which shapes Coetzee's outstanding fiction... As austerely beautiful as would be expected of Coetzee the artist... its aloof, edgy grace and seething passion ensure the narrative is both truthful and mysterious." -- "Irish Times "A deeply-felt and utterly compelling account of a South African childhood: the narrative style is as spare and lean as the Karoo flatlands which form its backdrop." -- "Daily Telegraph "From the Trade Paperback edition.
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- PublisherMartin Secker & Warburg Ltd
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0436204487
- ISBN 13 9780436204487
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages176
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