Boyhood

Scenes from Provincial Life

A Memoir

J.M. Coetzee

First Edition

Hardcover

Were you perhaps under the impression that JM Coetzee was once an innocent, wonder-filled little boy, marvelling at all the unexpected delights of Mother Earth? Read this book and disabuse yourself! At age seven, fictionalised Coetzee, but also, one cannot help but suspect, the real Coetzee, was already viewing the world through a prism of outsider-ness, violence, sadism and, as a special bonus, a serious case of Oedipus complex