ISBN |
9781922330055 (paperback) |
Name |
Coetzee, J. M., 1940- author. |
Title |
Youth / J. M. Coetzee ; introduced by Michael McGirr. |
Published |
Melbourne, Victoria : The Text Publishing Company, 2020. |
©2002 |
Description |
xv, 201 pages ; 20 cm. |
Notes |
Originally published: London : Secker & Warburg, 2002. |
Summary |
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. |
Subjects |
Coetzee, J. M., -- 1940-Childhood and youth -- Fiction |
Coetzee, J. M., -- 1940-Fiction |
South Africans -- England -- London -- Fiction |
Authors, South African -- 20th century -- Fiction |
Young men -- Fiction |
London (England) -- Fiction |
Genre |
Autobiographical fiction |
Bildungsromans |
Other Names |
McGirr, Michael, 1961- writer of introduction. |
Series |
Scenes from provincial life 02. |
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