First edition
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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
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September 1997 |
Media type | Print (Paperback) |
Pages | 166 pp (UK paperback) |
ISBN | |
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.