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Youth

Youth

Coetzee, J. M.

Paperback

Series: Scenes from Provincial Life, Book 2

General FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0142002003
ISBN13: 9780142002001
Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
Published: Oct 7 2003
Pages: 169
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.48 Width: 5.04 Depth: 7.82
Language: English
J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018.

The second installment of J. M. Coetzee's fictionalized memoir explores a young man's struggle to experience life to its full intensity and transform it into art. The narrator of Youth has long been plotting an escape-from the stifling love of his overbearing mother, a father whose failures haunt him, and what he is sure is impending revolution in his native country of South Africa. Arriving at last in London in the 1960s, however, he finds neither poetry nor romance and instead begins a dark pilgrimage into adulthood. Youth 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.

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