Boyhood : [electronic resource] scenes from provincial life / J.M. Coetzee.
Material type: TextPublication details: London : Secker & Warburg, 1997.Description: 166 p. ; 23 cmISBN:- 0436204487 :
- 9780436204487
- 823 21
- PR9369.3.C58 Z463 1997
- 18.07
- HP 3340
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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.
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