Boyhood
BoyhoodJ. M. Coetzee

Boyhood (1997)

J. M. Coetzee

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In these fictionalised memoirs using third-person narration, Coetzee examines his childhood within the sphere of his parents' unhappy marriage, his desire for his mother and for independence from her, and his feelings towards a multi-racial South African society.

ISBN:
9781409015840
Length:
166 pages

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Bren Booth-Jones | Folio & Tome
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Having read all three, , Boyhood, Youth, and , Summertime. There's obviously echoes there in the title of Tolstoy's Childhood, Boyhood, Youth, which is a novel that many people mistake for autobiography. So, Coetzee in typically intertextual fashion is sort of playing with that notion or that question in this series of books that he wrote. They're so good.

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