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  Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life (Paperback) By (author) J. M. Coetzee

  

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  Short Description for BoyhoodJ.M. Coetzee grew up in a new development north of Cape Town, with a father he despised and a mother he both adored and resented. Bold and telling, this masterly evocation of a young boy's life under apartheid is the book Coetzee's many admirers have been waiting for. "Exceptional. . . . A scorched tale of race, caste, shame, and--at times--hilarious bewilderment".--THE NEW YORKER.
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  • Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
  • Published: 24 September 1998
  • Format: Paperback 166 pages
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  • Categories: Biography: General | Biography: Literary | Literature: History & Criticism | African History
  • ISBN 13: 9780140265668 ISBN 10: 014026566X
  • Sales rank: 88,064

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• Coetzee grew up in a new development north of Cape Town, tormented by guilt and fear. With a father he despised, and a mother he both adored and resented, he led a double life -- the brilliant and well-behaved student at school, the princely despot at home, 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 high 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.