Author: J. M. Coetzee Year: 2002 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Contemporary
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ISBNs: 9780142002001 0142002003 |
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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 an 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.
This book is part of the "Scenes from Provincial Life" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "Summertime" First published in 2009 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Boyhood" First published in 1997 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
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