Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life
Author | J. M. Coetzee |
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Cover artist | Roderick Field |
Country | South Africa |
Language | English |
Genre | Autobiographical novel |
Publisher | Secker & Warburg |
Publication date | September 1997 |
Media type | Print (Paperback) |
Pages | 166 pp (UK paperback) |
ISBN | 0-09-926827-2 |
OCLC | 39713641 |
Followed by | Youth |
Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life is a fictionalised autobiographical work by J. M. Coetzee, and focuses on his years spent growing up in South Africa. The novel focuses on his troubled time in Worcester but looks back to happier times living in a large house in Rosebank, Cape Town. By the end of the novel they had moved again, this time to Plumstead, Cape Town.
Categories:
- 1997 novels
- 20th-century South African novels
- Autobiographical novels
- Novels by J. M. Coetzee
- Novels set in Cape Town
- Secker & Warburg books
- South African novel stubs
- Autobiographical novel stubs
- 1990s historical novel stubs