Coetzee, J.M. - Youth - (Excellent Paperback)

Book looks brand new and unread to me - 169 pg.    >>>   The second installment of J. M. Coetzee's fictionalized "memoir" explores a young man's struggle to experience life to its full intensity and transform it into art. The narrator of Youth has long been plotting an escape-from the stifling love of his overbearing mother, a father whose failures haunt him, and what he is sure is an impending revolution in his native country of South Africa. Arriving at last in London in the 1960s, however, he finds neither poetry nor romance and instead begins a dark pilgrimage into adulthood.    >>>   With the second volume in his autobiography trilogy, J.M. Coetzees Youth is even more candid than its predecessor Boyhood in offering Coetzees recollections of his young adulthood. In another short but remarkable memoir, he is again confessional, solemn, and melancholy, but also he demonstrates his ability to have dark and caustic humor when remembering his past.