Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life.
First Edition of J.M. Coetzee's Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life; Signed by Him
Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life.
COETZEE, J.M.
$750.00
Item Number: 129195
London: Secker & Warburg, 1997.
First edition of this fictionalized autobiography by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by J.M. Coetzee on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Cover photograph by Roderick Field. Author photograph by Morris Zwi.
Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life is a fictionalized autobiographical work by J. M. Coetzee, and focuses on his years spent growing up in South Africa. The novel focuses on his troubled time in Worcester but looks back to happier times living in a large house in Rosebank, Cape Town. By the end of the novel they had moved again, this time to Plumstead, Cape Town.