Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life - Rilegato

Coetzee, J. M.

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ISBN 10: 0436204487 ISBN 13: 9780436204487

Casa editrice: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, 1997

Riassunto

Revisiting the South Africa of half a century ago, Coetzee examines his young self, bringing the diagnostic skills of the mature novelist to bear on his own past. With a father he could not respect, and a mother he resented, he picked his way through a world that refused to explain its rules.

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Recensione:

“The best description of a childhood I have ever read.” -- The Times

“As funny, cruel and terrifying as life itself. It is also intense and elegant, clearly the product of the complex, subtle imagination which shapes Coetzee’s outstanding fiction... As austerely beautiful as would be expected of Coetzee the artist... its aloof, edgy grace and seething passion ensure the narrative is both truthful and mysterious.” -- Irish Times

“A deeply-felt and utterly compelling account of a South African childhood: the narrative style is as spare and lean as the Karoo flatlands which form its backdrop.” -- Daily Telegraph
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L'autore:

J.M. Coetzee is a professor of general literature at the University of Cape Town. His many awards include the Booker Prize, twice, for The Life & Times of Michael K in 1983 and for Disgrace in 1999. He is a two-time Booker Prize winner, has also won the CNA prize, South Africa’s premier literary award (three times), the Prix Etranger Femina, the Jerusalem Prize, the Lannan Literary Award and the Irish Times International Fiction Prize.
From the Trade Paperback edition.

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• Editore: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0436204487
• ISBN 13: 9780436204487
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 176