Boyhood

Description:

In these fictionalised memoirs using third-person narration, Coetzee examines his childhood within the sphere of his parents' unhappy marriage, his desire for his mother and for independence from her, and his feelings towards a multi-racial South African society.

subjects: South African Authors,  Biography,  Dorf,  Belletristische Darstellung,  Außenseiter,  Junge,  Apartheid,  South Africans,  Young men,  Fiction,  Fiction, biographical,  Fiction, coming of age,  South africa, fiction,  South African Novelists,  New York Times reviewed,  Autobiographical fiction,  Authors, fiction,  England, fiction,  Authors, south african,  Authors, biography,  Coetzee, j. m., 1940-,  Authors

People: J. M. Coetzee (1940-)

Places: England,  London (England),  London

Times: 20th century