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  Youth (Paperback) By (author) J M Coetzee

  

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  Short Description for YouthFrom the Booker Prize-winning author of "Disgrace" comes a second volume of memoir that "proves yet again that the awkward young man did indeed become a 'real artist'"--"The Wall Street Journal."
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  • Publisher: Penguin Books
  • Published: 07 October 2003
  • Format: Paperback 169 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780142002001 ISBN 10: 0142002003
  • Sales rank: 276,292

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• The second installment of J. M. Coetzee's fictionalized "memoir" explores a young man's struggle to experience life to its full intensity and transform it into art. The narrator of "Youth" has long been plotting an escape-from the stifling love of his overbearing mother, a father whose failures haunt him, and what he is sure is impending revolution in his native country of South Africa. Arriving at last in London in the 1960s, however, he finds neither poetry nor romance and instead begins a dark pilgrimage into adulthood. "Youth" is a remarkable portrait of a consciousness, isolated and adrift, turning in on itself, of a young man struggling to find his way in the world, written with tenderness and a fierce clarity.