Boyhood Scenes from Provincial Life

"A short and unsettling, deftly realized memoir....This is not an eventful memoir--its strength comes, instead, from Coetzee's nuanced, unblinking perceptions. His childhood was not unhappy in the conventional sense; the sadness and tragedies were mainly of the ordinary kind, and in his masterful depiction of them, that's what makes them so shattering....[A] powerful, disillusioned portrait of childhood..."Coetzee, J. M. is the author of 'Boyhood Scenes from Provincial Life', published 1998 under ISBN 9780140265668 and ISBN 014026566X.