Coetzee, J.M.

Boyhood.

London: Secker & Warburg, 1997. First edition. Octavo. Original boards. Signed by the author on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

The first volume in the author's fictionalized memoir that continues with Youth and Summertime. "This life is described with such skill, such exactitude and such relentlessness that I found myself gasping for air...a fine book, probably the best description of a childhood I have ever read" (The Times).

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