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Summertime : Scenes from Provincial Life by J. M. Coetzee is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Sometimes heartbreaking, often funny, Summertime completes J.M.Coetzee’s majestic trilogy of fictionalised memoirs, begun with Boyhood and Youth.J.M. Coetzee’s (entirely fictional) English biographer gradually reveals an unflattering portrait of the young Coetzee as an awkward, bookish individual with little talent for opening himself to others. Within the family, he’s regarded as an outsider, someone who tried to flee the tribe and has now returned, chastened. His insistence on doing manual work, his long hair and beard and (most damning) the rumours that he writes poetry - all evoke nothing but suspicion in the South Africa of the time."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, remorselessly human, witty, and often outright funny... Summertime is offbeat and deliberate, elusive and truthful." - Irish Times "Both an elegant request that the sum of Coetzee's existence as a public figure be looked for only in his writing, and ample evidence, once again, why that request shou

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Author

J. M. Coetzee

Publisher

Harvill Secker

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781846553189

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Memoir, Fiction, Novelists, Poets & Playwrights