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Scenes from Provincial Life Hardcover - 2011

by J. M. Coetzee


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J.M. Coetzee is a professor of general literature at the University of Cape Town. His many awards include the Booker Prize, twice, for The Life & Times of Michael K in 1983 and for Disgrace in 1999. Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life was his first volume of memoirs.

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  • Title Scenes from Provincial Life
  • Author J. M. Coetzee
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 512
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harvill Secker, New York
  • Date 2011-10-03
  • ISBN 9781846554858 / 1846554853
  • Dewey Decimal Code 823.914

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Summertime
"This is the third instalment of a life so reserved, so repressed, so seething with polite rage and restrained despair that it could only be approached through a third-person voice... it is wonderful stuff. But then, Coetzee is wonderful: edgy, black, remoreselessly human, witty, and often outright funny...
— Irish Times

Boyhood
"This life is described with such skill, such exactitude and such relentlessness that I found myself gasping for air... Coetzee has achieved something universal in his work... a fine book, probably the best description of a childhood I have ever read."
—The Times

Youth
"Only a writer as great as J. M. Coetzee is capable of infusing meditation on the spoilt hope of youth with such clarity, flency and poise... The quality of the writing and its unflinching truthfulness make it exhilarating."
—Daily Mail

About the author

J.M. Coetzee is a professor of general literature at the University of Cape Town. His many awards include the Booker Prize, twice, for "The Life & Times of Michael K" in 1983 and for "Disgrace" in 1999. "Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life" was his first volume of memoirs.
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