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Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life

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'Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life' is a fictionalised autobiographical work by J. M. Coetzee, and focuses on his years spent growing up in South Africa. The novel focuses on his troubled time in Worcester but looks back to happier times living in a large house in Rosebank, Cape Town. By the end of the novel they had moved again, this time to Plumstead, Cape Town.

Category:1997 novels

Category:20th-century South African novels

Category:Autobiographical novels

Category:Novels by J. M. Coetzee

Category:Novels set in Cape Town

Category:Secker & Warburg books


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