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J. M. Coetzee, Michael McGirr

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Text Publishing Company
03 November 2020

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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 apartheid-riven homeland for the bleak London of the early 1960s, where he aspires to become a writer. There he becomes trapped in stultifying computer-programming work and brief, unsatisfying affairs, turning ever inwards in the struggle to realise his ambitions. Youth is the second of J. M. Coetzee's masterly trio of autobiographical novels, Scenes from Provincial Life.

By: J. M. Coetzee
Introduction by: Michael McGirr
Imprint: Text Publishing Company
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 172g
ISBN: 9781922330055
ISBN 10: 1922330051
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 03 November 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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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'Beneath the tranquil flow of the prose is a biting current of irony...This is a funny as well as doomy story.' * Guardian *

Long-listed for Best Designed Series, Australian Book Design Awards 2020 (Australia)
Short-listed for Best Designed Series, Australian Book Design Awards 2020 (Australia)

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J. M. Coetzee, Michael McGirr

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