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Cover artist Roderick Field Publication date September 1997 Pages 166 pp (UK paperback) Originally published September 1997 Genre Autobiographical novel Country South Africa | 3.8/5 Goodreads Language English Media type Print (Paperback) ISBN 0-09-926827-2 Publisher Harvill Secker | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Followed by Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II Similar Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II, Summertime (novel), Dusklands |
Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life is a fictionalised 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.
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