Youth

Author(s): J. M. Coetzee

Biography and Memoir

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. Youthis the second of J. M. Coetzee's masterly trio of autobiographical novels, Scenes from Provincial Life.


Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9781922330055
  • : The Text Publishing Company
  • : Text Publishing
  • : 0.172
  • : November 2020
  • : ---length:- '23.4'width:- '15.3'units:- Centimeters
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : J. M. Coetzee
  • : Paperback
  • : English