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Boyhood : Scenes from Provincial Life
J. M. Coetzee
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London
:
Secker and Warburg
,
1997
6309688
1997
single work
novel
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 (Source: Libraries Australia).
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Youth : Scenes from Provincial Life
J. M. Coetzee
,
London
:
Secker and Warburg
,
2002
Z1212327
2002
single work
novel
(taught in 1 units)
"The narrator of Youth, a student in the South Africa of the 1950s, has long been plotting an escape from his native country: from the stifling love of his mother, from a father whose failures haunt him, and from what he is sure is impending revolution. Studying mathematics, reading poetry, saving money, he tries to ensure that when he arrives in the real world, wherever that may be, 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 programmer, from which random, loveless affairs offer no relief. Devoid of inspiration, he stops writing. An awkward colonial, a constitutional outsider, he begins a dark pilgrimage in which he is continually tested and continually found wanting" (Source: Viking publisher's blurb)
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Excerpt from Summertime
J. M. Coetzee
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2009
extract
novel
(Summertime : Scenes from Provincial Life)
— Appears in: Etchings , no. 7 2009; (p. 31-35) -
Relative Differences
J. M. Coetzee
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2009
extract
novel
(Summertime : Scenes from Provincial Life)
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , September vol. 4 no. 8 2009; (p. 6-7) -
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Taşra Hayatindan Manzaralar : roman
J. M. Coetzee
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Suat Ertüzün
(translator),
Istanbul
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Can Sanat Yayinlari Ltd
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2011
8129476
2011
selected work
novel
A Turkish omnibus edition that includes translations of Boyhood, Youth and Summertime by J. M. Coetzee.
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Scenes from Provincial Life
J. M. Coetzee
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London
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Harvill Secker
,
2011
Z1804272
2011
single work
novel
J. M. Coetzee's trilogy of fictionalised memoir comprises Boyhood, Youth and Summertime. Although each part has been published separately, they have been collected and revised for publication in this version under the title Scenes from Provincial Life, the sub-title of the component works.
We have decided to list this as a novel, thought it might also have been called autobiography.
- y Barndom, Ungdom, Sommer : 3 bøker i 1 J. M. Coetzee , Aud Greiff (translator), Oslo : Cappelen Damm , 2012 7717107 2012 selected work novel
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