β Scribed by J. M. Coetzee
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SUMMARY:
A searing portrait of a young colonial in early 1960s London -- from the two-time winner of the Booker Prize. Youth's narrator, a student in 1950s South Africa, has long been plotting an escape from his native country. Studying mathematics, reading poetry, saving money, he tries to ensure that when he arrives in the real world he will be prepared to experience life to its full intensity, and transform it into art. Arriving at last in London, however, he finds neither poetry nor romance. Instead he succumbs to the monotony of life as a computer programmer from which random, loveless affairs offer no relief. Devoid of inspiration, he stops writing and begins a dark pilgrimage in which he is continually tested and continually found wanting. Youthis a remarkable portrait of a consciousness turning in on itself. J.M. Coetzee explores a young man's struggle to find his way in the world, with tenderness and a fierce clarity.
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A searing portrait of a young colonial in early 1960s London from the two-time winner of the Booker Prize. **Youth**s narrator, a student in 1950s South Africa, has long been plotting an escape from his native country. Studying mathematics, reading poetry, saving money, he tries to ensure that when
SUMMARY: A searing portrait of a young colonial in early 1960s London -- from the two-time winner of the Booker Prize. Youth's narrator, a student in 1950s South Africa, has long been plotting an escape from his native country. Studying mathematics, reading poetry, saving money, he tries to ensure
SUMMARY: A searing portrait of a young colonial in early 1960s London -- from the two-time winner of the Booker Prize. Youth's narrator, a student in 1950s South Africa, has long been plotting an escape from his native country. Studying mathematics, reading poetry, saving money, he tries to ensure
SUMMARY: A searing portrait of a young colonial in early 1960s London -- from the two-time winner of the Booker Prize. Youth's narrator, a student in 1950s South Africa, has long been plotting an escape from his native country. Studying mathematics, reading poetry, saving money, he tries to ensure
The second installment of J. M. Coetzeeβs fictionalized Β«memoirΒ» explores a young manβs struggle to experience life to its full intensity and transform it into art. The narrator of Youth has long been plotting an escape βfrom the stifling love of his overbearing mother, a father whose failures haunt