Boyhood
First edition
AuthorJ. M. Coetzee
Cover artistRoderick Field
CountrySouth Africa
LanguageEnglish
GenreAutobiographical novel
PublisherSecker & Warburg
Publication date
September 1997
Media typePrint (Paperback)
Pages166 pp (UK paperback)
ISBN0-09-926827-2
OCLC39713641
Followed byYouth 

Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life is a fictionalised autobiographical work by J. M. Coetzee which 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 to Plumstead, Cape Town.[1]

  1. โ†‘ Coetzee, J. M. (1997). Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life. Viking. ISBN 978-0-670-87220-6.


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