JM Coetzee Book Bundle: Boyhood & Youth (Scenes from Provincial Life #1 & 2)

BOYHOOD (Scenes from Provincial Life #1) 

In Boyhood, J. M. Coetzee revisits the South Africa of his childhood and interior life. Boyhood's young narrator grew up in a small country town. With a father he imitated but could not respect, and a mother he both adored and resented, he picked his way through a world that refused to explain its rules, but whose rules he knew he must obey. Steering between these contradictions, Boyhood evokes the tensions, delights and terrors of childhood with startling, haunting immediacy. Coetzee examines his young self with the dispassionate curiosity of an explorer rediscovering his own early footprints, and the account of his progress is bright, hard and simply compelling.

"As funny, cruel and terrifying as life itself. It is also intense and elegant, clearly the product of the complex, subtle imagination which shapes Coetzee's outstanding fiction and austerely beautiful as would be expected of Coetzee the artist, its aloof, edgy grace and seething passion ensure the narrative is both truthful and mysterious". Irish Times

166 pages, Paperback, Good Condition

Published August 11, 1998 by Vintage

ISBN 9780099268277 

YOUTH (Scenes from Provincial Life #2)

Set against the background of the 1960s, Youth is a remarkable portrait of a consciousness turning in on itself. J.M. Coetzee explores a young man's struggle to find his way in the world with tenderness and a fierce clarity.

 

256 pages, Paperback, Good Condition

Published January 1, 2003 by VINTAGE

ISBN 9780099433620 

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#Literature #Novels #Literary Fiction

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