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Maria Mercedes Andrade

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Literature professor, fiction writer, poet.

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Boyhood, by J.M. Coetzee

Boyhood. Scenes of a Provincial Life

J.M. Coetzee

Penguin, USA (September 1998)

166 pg.

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Boyhood is the first of J.M. Coetzee’s series of three autobiographical novels, which includes Youth: Scenes of a Provincial Life and Summertime. The novel centers on the early experiences of a boy growing up in Worcester, a town in South Africa. The back cover of the Penguin edition Read more of this blog post »

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