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Revisiting the South Africa of the mid 20th century, the author of "In the Heart of the Country" writes about his childhood and interior life. This is the first volume of his memoirs.
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Until writing this book, the author of Waiting for the Barbarians and other acclaimed novels has remained determinedly private about the personal experiences that sparked his writing. In Boyhood, describing his youth in the third person, J. M. Coetzee limns the halting struggle toward maturity of a sensitive, bookish boy contemptuous of his weak father who yearns--and fears--to loosen a powerful attachment to his mother. He evokes the narrowness and cruelty of South African society in the years following World War II with the same austere yet passionate prose that distinguishes his fiction.
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The first volume of memoirs from the two-time winner of the Booker Prize.
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- PublisherVintage
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0099273691
- ISBN 13 9780099273691
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages192
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