J.M. Coetzee

Broschiertes Buch

Boyhood

Scenes from Provincial Life

Beschreibung

With a father he imitated but could not respect, and a mother he both adored and resented, he picked his way through a world that refused to explain its rules, but whose rules he knew he must obey.

Autor

J.M. Coetzee's work includes Waiting for the Barbarians, Life & Times of Michael K, Boyhood, Youth, Disgrace, Summertime, The Childhood of Jesus and, most recently, The Schooldays of Jesus. He was the first author to win the Booker Prize twice and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK / Vintage
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 537882
• 1998.
• Seitenzahl: 166
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 200mm x 128mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 126g
• ISBN-13: 9780099268277
• ISBN-10: 0099268272
• Artikelnr.: 12715527

Rezensionen

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