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Youth

J. M. Coetzee

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  • awardShortlisted, Best Designed Series, Australian Book Design Awards, 2020

    • Introduction by Michael McGirr

    He has escaped South Africa. Everything is going well, he has attained his first goal, he ought to be happy. In fact, as the weeks pass, he finds himself more and more miserable.

    In this unforgiving portrait of the artist as a young man, John flees his apartheid-riven homeland for the bleak London of the early 1960s, where he aspires to become a writer. There he becomes trapped in stultifying computer-programming work and brief, unsatisfying affairs, turning ever inwards in the struggle to realise his ambitions. Youth is the second of J. M. Coetzee’s masterly trio of autobiographical novels, Scenes from Provincial Life.

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    J. M. Coetzee
    About the Author

    J. M. Coetzee was the first author to win the Booker Prize twice and was awarded the NobelPrize for Literature in 2003. His work includes Waiting for the Barbarians, Life & Times ofMichael K, The Master of Petersburg, Disgrace and Diary of a Bad Year. His most recent writingis a trilogy of novels: The Childhood of Jesus, The Schooldays of...

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    Michael McGirr
    About the Author

    Michael McGirr is the bestselling author of Snooze, Bypass and Things You Get for Free. He has reviewed almost one thousand books, his short fiction has appeared in publications in Australia and overseas, and he has been publisher of Eureka Street and fiction editor of Meanjin. He is a high-school teacher and lives in Melbourne with his wife,...

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    Extent:
    224pp
    Format:
    Paperback
    Text publication date:
    3 November 2020
    ISBN:
    9781922330055
    AU Price:
    $19.99
    NZ Price:
    $24.00
    Categories:
    Fiction
    Australian
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    ‘Beneath the tranquil flow of the prose is a biting current of irony…This is a funny as well as doomy story.’

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