{"product_id":"9780140265668","title":"Boyhood: Scenes From Provincial Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Fiercely revealing, bluntly unsentimental. . .a telling portrait of the artist as a young man that illuminates the hidden source of his art.\" —\u003cb\u003eMichiko Kakutani, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJ.M. Coetzee's latest novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Schooldays of Jesus\u003c\/i\u003e, is now available from Viking. \u003ci\u003eLate Essays: 2006-2016\u003c\/i\u003e will be available January 2018. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCoetzee grew up in a new development north of Cape Town, tormented by guilt and fear. With a father he despised, and a mother he both adored and resented, he led a double life—the brilliant and well-behaved student at school, the princely despot at home, always terrified of losing his mother's love. His first encounters with literature, the awakenings of sexual desire, and a growing awareness of apartheid left him with baffling questions; and only in his love of the high veld (\"farms are places of freedom, of life\") could he find a sense of belonging. Bold and telling, this masterly evocation of a young boy's life is the book Coetzee's many admirers have been waiting for, but never could have expected.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47010636431600,"sku":"9780140265668","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780140265668_p0.jpg?v=1763642306","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780140265668","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}