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Scenes From Provincial Life

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An edition of Boyhood (1997)

Boyhood

Scenes From Provincial Life

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In these fictionalised memoirs using third-person narration, Coetzee examines his childhood within the sphere of his parents' unhappy marriage, his desire for his mother and for independence from her, and his feelings towards a multi-racial South African society.

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Penguin (Non-Classics)
Language
English
Pages
176

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Subjects

South African Authors, Biography, Dorf, Belletristische Darstellung, Außenseiter, Junge, Apartheid, South Africans, Young men, Fiction, Fiction, biographical, Fiction, coming of age, South africa, fiction, South African Novelists, New York Times reviewed, Autobiographical fiction, Authors, fiction, England, fiction, Authors, south african, Authors, biography, Coetzee, j. m., 1940-, Authors

People

J. M. Coetzee (1940-)

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England, London (England), London

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20th century

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2007, Wydawn. Znak
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Pojka r: scener ur ett liv i provinsen
2002, Ma nPocket
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Scènes de la vie d'un jeune garçon
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Boyhood: Scenes From Provincial Life
September 1, 1998, Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life
September 1, 1997, Viking Adult
Hardcover in English
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Boyhood: scenes from provincial life
1997, Secker & Warburg
in English
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Boyhood: scenes from provincial life
1997, Viking
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First Sentence

"THEY LIVE ON A HOUSING ESTATE outside the town of Worcester, between the railway line and the National Road."

Classifications

Library of Congress
PR9369.3.C58Z463, PR9369.3.C58 Z463 1998

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL7351675M
Internet Archive
boyhood00john
ISBN 10
014026566X
ISBN 13
9780140265668
OCLC/WorldCat
39975046
Library Thing
8660368
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6198

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