ISBN |
9781038635525 |
Name |
Coetzee, J. M., 1940- author. |
Title |
Youth / J.M. Coetzee ; read by William Gaminara. |
Edition |
Unabridged. |
Published |
Tullamarine, Victoria : Bolinda Audio, [2022] |
℗2021 |
Description |
5 audio discs (CD) (5 hr., 41 min.) : digital, stereo ; 12 cm ; in container. |
Performers |
Read by William Gaminara. |
Summary |
The second instalment of J. M. Coetzee's fictionalised 'memoir' is a remarkable portrait of a consciousness, isolated and adrift, turning in on itself, of a young man struggling to find his way in the world, written with tenderness and a fierce clarity. 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. |
Subjects |
Misogyny -- Fiction |
Ambition -- Fiction |
Interpersonal relations -- Fiction |
South Africans -- England -- Fiction |
Young men -- Fiction |
Genre |
Audiobooks |
Romans à clef |
Bildungsromans |
Other Names |
Gaminara, William narrator. |
Added Corporate Names |
Audible, Inc |
Series |
Scenes from provincial life 02. |
Links to Related Works |
Subject References:
See Also:
Authors:
Series:
|