Description |
166 pages ; 23 cm |
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 |
Notes |
Cover title : Boyhood - a memoir |
Subject |
Coetzee, J. M., 1940- author
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Coetzee, J. M., 1940-
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Authors, South African -- 20th century
-- ?́ƠBiography
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Authors, South African -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Genre/Form |
Biography.
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Belletristische Darstellung
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Biographies.
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LC no. |
97012360 |
ISBN |
014026566X paperback |
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0670872202 alkaline paper |
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