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Boyhood : Scenes from Provincial Life by J. M. Coetzee is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Boyhood : Scenes from Provincial Life about?

In Boyhood, J. M. Coetzee revisits the South Africa of half a century ago, to write about his childhood and interior life. Boyhood 's young narrator grew up in a small country town. 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. Steering between these contradictions, Boyhood evokes the tensions, delights and terrors of childhood with startling, haunting immediacy. Coetzee examines his young self with the dispassionate curiosity of an explorer rediscovering his own early footprints, and the account of his progress is bright, hard and simply compelling.

Who reads Boyhood : Scenes from Provincial Life?

Author

J. M. Coetzee

Publisher

Penguin Random House

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9781409015840

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Memoir, Biography

Rating

3.78 / 5 (217 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13