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Youth : Scenes from Provincial Life II

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ISBN-10: 0099433621

ISBN-13: 9780099433620

Edition: 2003

Authors: J. M. Coetzee

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Youth's narrator, a student in 1950s South Africa, has long been plotting an escape from his native country. Studying mathematics, reading poetry, saving money, he tries to ensure that when he arrives in the real world he will be prepared to experience life to its full intensity, and transform it into art. Arriving at last in London, however, he finds neither poetry nor romance. Instead he succumbs to the monotony of life as a computer programmer, from which random, loveless affairs offer no relief. Devoid of inspiration, he stops writing and begins a dark pilgrimage in which he is continually tested and continually found wanting.Set against the background of the 1960s, Youth is a…    
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Book details

Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/27/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 5.06" wide x 7.72" long x 0.44" tall
Weight: 0.286
Language: English

J. M. Coetzee's books include "Boyhood", "Dusklands", "In the Heart of the Country", "Waiting for the Barbarians", "Life & Times of Michael K", "Foe", & "The Master of Petersburg". A professor of general literature at the University of Cape Town, Coetzee has won many literary awards, including the CNA Prize (South Africa's premier literary award), the Booker Prize (twice), the Prix Etranger Femina, the Jerusalem Prize, the Lannan Literary Award, & The Irish Times International Fiction Prize.