Boyhood: A Memoir - Scenes from Provincial Life

Zusatztext A first volume of memoirs from one of South Africa's foremost men of letters!which evokes the tensions! delights and terrors of childhood with hauntingimmediacy. Informationen zum Autor J.M. Coetzee ’s work includes Waiting for the Barbarians , Life & Times of Michael K , Boyhood , Youth , Disgrace , Summertime , The Childhood of Jesus and, most recently, The Schooldays of Jesus . He was the first author to win the Booker Prize twice and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003. Klappentext A first volume of memoirs from one of South Africa's foremost men of letters, which evokes the tensions, delights and terrors of childhood with haunting immediacy. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: J. M. Coetzee, Jean M. Coetzee
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 06.08.1998
• EAN: 9780099268277
• ISBN: 978-0-09-926827-7
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 12 mm
• Series: Vintage Paperbacks; VINTAGE BOOKS; Vintage Paperbacks
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Südafrikanische SchriftstellerInnen: Werke (div.), BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, Memoirs, LITERARY CRITICISM / African, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Republic of South Africa, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form