{"product_id":"boyhood-scenes-from-provincial-life","title":"Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Fiercely revealing, bluntly unsentimental. . .a telling portrait of the artist as a young man that illuminates the hidden source of his art.\" --\u003cb\u003eMichiko Kakutani, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJ.M. Coetzee's latest novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Schooldays of Jesus\u003c\/i\u003e, is now available from Viking. \u003ci\u003eLate Essays: 2006-2016\u003c\/i\u003e will be available January 2018.  \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCoetzee grew up in a new development north of Cape Town, tormented by guilt and fear. With a father he despised, and a mother he both adored and resented, he led a double life--the brilliant and well-behaved student at school, the princely despot at home, always terrified of losing his mother's love. His first encounters with literature, the awakenings of sexual desire, and a growing awareness of apartheid left him with baffling questions; and only in his love of the high veld (\"farms are places of freedom, of life\") could he find a sense of belonging. Bold and telling, this masterly evocation of a young boy's life is the book Coetzee's many admirers have been waiting for, but never could have expected.\u003cdiv style=\"display:none\"\u003eISBN-10: 014026566X\u003cbr\u003eISBN-13: 9780140265668\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Coetzee, J. M.\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Penguin Books\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Sep 1998)","offer_id":45937583489221,"sku":"9780140265668","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0708\/6414\/2533\/files\/9780140265668.jpg?v=1772881219","url":"https:\/\/www.inveni.store\/products\/boyhood-scenes-from-provincial-life","provider":"Inveni","version":"1.0","type":"link"}