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Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life.
de Coetzee, J.M
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London: Secker & Warburg, 1997. First edition of this fictionalized autobiography by the Nobel Prize-winning author. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the title page, "J.M. Coetzee Cape Town, 1999." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Martin Ogolter. Jacket photograph by Barbara Morgan. Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life is a fictionalized 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.
Sinopsis
J.M. Coetzee is a professor of general literature at the University of Cape Town. His many awards include the Booker Prize, twice, for The Life & Times of Michael K in 1983 and for Disgrace in 1999. He is a two-time Booker Prize winner, has also won the CNA prize, South Africa’s premier literary award (three times), the Prix Etranger Femina, the Jerusalem Prize, the Lannan Literary Award and the Irish Times International Fiction Prize.
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- Librería
- Raptis Rare Books
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 132418
- Título
- Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life.
- Autor
- Coetzee, J.M
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Secker & Warburg
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1997
- Palabras clave
- J.M. Coetzee First Edition Signed
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Biography and Autobiography;
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- Cloth
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