Youth

Youth - Paperback

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Youth - Paperback

Youth - Paperback

by J. M. Coetzee
$24.00
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Book Overview

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.
ISBN9780142002001
Author J. M. Coetzee
PublisherPenguin Adult Hc/Tr
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedOctober 2003
LanguageENG- English
Pages169
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About J. M. Coetzee

J. M. Coetzee won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003 and is the author of twenty-one books, which have been translated into many languages. He was the first author to twice win the Booker Prize. A native of South Africa, he now lives in Adelaide, Australia.

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