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  Youth (Paperback) By (author) J.M. Coetzee

  

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  Short Description for YouthA student in 1950s South Africa has long been plotting an escape from his country. Studying mathematics, reading poetry, saving money, he tries to ensure that when he arrives in the real world, he will be prepared to experience life to its full intensity. Arriving at last in London, however, he finds neither poetry nor romance.
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  • Publisher: Vintage
  • Published: 06 February 2003
  • Format: Paperback 256 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780099433620 ISBN 10: 0099433621
  • Sales rank: 6,907

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Full description for Youth

• "Youth's" narrator, a student in 1950s South Africa, has long been plotting an escape from his native country. Studying mathematics, reading poetry, saving money, he tries to ensure that when he arrives in the real world, he will be prepared to experience life to its full intensity, and transform it into art. Arriving at last in London, however, he finds neither poetry nor romance. Instead, he succumbs to the monotony of life as a computer programmers, from which random, loveless affaires offer no relief. Devoid of inspiration, he stops writing and begins a dark pilgrimage in which he is continually tested and continually found wanting.