Summary
Continuing Text’s re-release of J. M. Coetzee’s revered works with stylish new covers, Youth is a modern classic by the great Nobel Prize winner accompanied by an introduction from bestselling author Michael McGirr.
He has escaped South Africa. Everything is going well, he has attained his first goal, he ought to be happy. In fact, as the weeks pass, he finds himself more and more miserable.
In this unforgiving portrait of the artist as a young man, John flees his apa…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781922330055 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1922330051 |
| Author: | J.M. Coetzee |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Text Publishing Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 3 November 2020 |
| Weight: | 172g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 130mm x 16mm |
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Critics Review
‘Beneath the tranquil flow of the prose is a biting current of irony…This is a funny as well as doomy story.’
‘Beneath the tranquil flow of the prose is a biting current of irony…This is a funny as well as doomy story.’ * Guardian *
About The Author
J.M. Coetzee
J. M. Coetzee was the first author to win the Booker Prize twice and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003. His work includes Waiting for the Barbarians, Life and Times of Michael K, The Master of Petersburg, Disgrace and Diary of a Bad Year. He lives in Adelaide.
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