Youth

This is a new book. Condition: Brand New.

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.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9781922330055
Published: November 2020

Number of pages: 192
Width: 130 mm
Height: 196 mm
Depth: 16 mm

Publisher: Text Publishing