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Boyhood
First edition
Author J. M. Coetzee
Cover artistRoderick Field
Country South Africa
LanguageEnglish
Genre Autobiographical novel
Publisher Secker & Warburg
Publication date
September 1997
Media typePrint ( Paperback)
Pages166 pp (UK paperback)
ISBN 0-09-926827-2
OCLC 39713641
Followed by Youth 

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