TY  - BOOK
AU  - Coetzee,J.M.
AU  - Coetzee, J. M.,
TI  - Youth
SN  - 0436205823
AV  - PR9369.3.C58 Y68 2002b
U1  - FIC COE 21
PY  - 2002///
CY  - London
PB  - Secker & Warburg
KW  - Coetzee, J. M.,
KW  - South Africans
KW  - England
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Young men
KW  - fast
KW  - London (England)
KW  - London
KW  - Literary fiction
KW  - novels
KW  - aat
KW  - Novels
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Romans
KW  - rvmgf
N1  - Also issued online
N2  - 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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