Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life - Brossura

Coetzee, J.

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ISBN 10: 014026566X ISBN 13: 9780140265668

Casa editrice: Penguin, 1998

Riassunto

The author of Waiting for the Barbarians narrates his personal story of growing up under apartheid in South Africa with a father he cannot respect and a mother he both adores and despises. Reprint.

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Recensione:

"Exceptional...a scorched tale of race, caste, shame, and—at times—hilarious bewilderment." —The New Yorker

"Tremendously readable and powerful...a masterfully told, spare and accessible memoir." —The Boston Globe

L'autore:

Born in Cape Town, South Africa, on February 9, 1940, John Michael Coetzee studied first at Cape Town and later at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned a Ph.D. degree in literature. In 1972 he returned to South Africa and joined the faculty of the University of Cape Town. His works of fiction include Dusklands, Waiting for the Barbarians, which won South Africa’s highest literary honor, the Central News Agency Literary Award, and the Life and Times of Michael K., for which Coetzee was awarded his first Booker Prize in 1983. He has also published a memoir, Boyhood: Scenes From a Provincial Life, and several essays collections. He has won many other literary prizes including the Lannan Award for Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize and The Irish Times International Fiction Prize. In 1999 he again won Britain’s prestigious Booker Prize for Disgrace, becoming the first author to win the award twice in its 31-year history. In 2003, Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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• Editore: Penguin
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 014026566X
• ISBN 13: 9780140265668
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 176