β Scribed by J. M. Coetzee
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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 him, and what he is sure is impending revolution in his native country of South Africa. Arriving at last in London in the 1960s, however, he finds neither poetry nor romance and instead begins a dark pilgrimage into adulthood. Youth is a remarkable portrait of a consciousness, isolated and adrift, turning in on itself, of a young man struggling to find his way in the world, written with tenderness and a fierce clarity.
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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
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