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Boyhood
Published 29 September 2020
ISBN 9781922330062
Format Paperback
Extent 224pp
AU Price $19.99
NZ Price $24.00

Boyhood

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Paperback
29 Sept 2020
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29 Sept 2020
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Continuing Text’s re-release of J. M. Coetzee’s revered works with stylish new covers, Boyhood is a modern classic by the great Nobel Prize winner accompanied by an introduction from acclaimed author Liam Pieper.

It is up to him to somehow get beyond childhood, beyond family and school, to a new life where he will not need to pretend any more.

A young John Coetzee struggles to exert his autonomy in this perceptive evocation of his early years in the deeply divided South Africa of the 1940s. Coetzee reflects on his formative experiences with brutal insight and clarity, laying bare the intermingled joys and tragedies of childhood against a backdrop of incongruous cruelty. Boyhood is the first of J. M. Coetzee’s masterly trio of autobiographical novels, Scenes from Provincial Life.
Published 29 September 2020
ISBN 9781922330062
Format Paperback
Extent 224pp
AU Price $19.99
NZ Price $24.00

About the author

J. M. Coetzee

J. M. Coetzee was the first author to win the Booker Prize twice and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003. His work includes Waiting for the Barbarians, Life and Times of Michael K, The Master of Petersburg,Disgrace and Diary of a Bad Year. He lives in Adelaide.
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Also by J. M. Coetzee

The Pole and Other Stories
Late Essays
Inner Workings
Stranger Shores
Summertime
Youth
Slow Man
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