Coetzee, J. M., 1940-

Youth / J.M. Coetzee. - London : Secker & Warburg, 2002. - 169 pages ; 23 cm

The narrator of Youth, a student in the South Africa of the 1950s, has long been plotting an escape from his native country: from the stifling love of his mother, from a father whose failures haunt him, and from what he is sure is impending revolution. Studying mathematics, reading poetry, saving money, he tries to ensure that when he arrives in the real world, wherever that may be, he will be prepared to experience life to its full intensity, and transform it into art. Arriving at last in London, however, he finds neither poetry nor romance. Instead he succumbs to the monotony of life as a computer programmer, from which random, loveless affairs offer no relief. Devoid of inspiration, he stops writing. An awkward colonial, a constitutional outsider, he begins a dark pilgrimage in which he is continually tested and continually found wanting.--BOOK JACKET.




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Coetzee, J. M.,


South Africans--England--Fiction.
Young men--Fiction.
South Africans
Young men


London (England)--Fiction.
England
England--London

London (England) Fiction South Africans England London Fiction South Africans Fiction England Young men Fiction


Literary fiction.
novels.
Novels
Fiction
Fiction.
Novels.
Romans.

PR9369.3.C58 / Y68 2002b

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