In a small town in 1940s South Africa, a young boy is ill at ease with his father and stifled by his mother. He excels at school, but is wary of his fellow pupils. Later, as a student in Cape Town, he readies himself to escape to Europe, but once in London, the reality is dispiriting. Decades later, an English biographer researches a book about the late John Coetzee, and interviewees describe an awkward man dogged by rumours. For the first time, J. M. Coetzee's majestic trilogy of fictionalised memoir, BOYHOOD, YOUTH and SUMMERTIME, is available in one beautiful volume. Coetzee’s majestic trilogy of fictionalised memoir, Boyhood, Youth and SummertimeIt opens in a small town in the South Africa of the 1940s. As he interviews important figures in Coetzee’s life, a portrait emerges of an awkward outsider who – even after death – remains dogged by rumours.
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