Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life

Boyhood
First edition
Author	J. M. Coetzee
Cover artist	Roderick Field
Country	South Africa
Language	English
Genre	Autobiographical novel
Publisher	Secker & Warburg
Publication date	September 1997
Media type	Print (Paperback)
Pages	166 pp (UK paperback)
ISBN	0-09-926827-2
OCLC	39713641
Followed by	Youth

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.

Works by J. M. Coetzee

Novels	Dusklands (1974) In the Heart of the Country (1977) Waiting for the Barbarians (1980) Life & Times of Michael K (1983) Foe (1986) Age of Iron (1990) The Master of Petersburg (1994) The Lives of Animals (1999) Disgrace (1999) Elizabeth Costello (2003) The Nobel Lecture in Literature, 2003: "He and His Man" (2004) Slow Man (2005) Diary of a Bad Year (2007) The Childhood of Jesus (2013)

"Autrebiography"	Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life (1997) Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II (2002) Summertime (2009)

Criticism and letters	Truth in Autobiography (1984) White Writing: On the Culture of Letters in South Africa (1988) Doubling the Point: Essays and Interviews (1992) Giving Offense: Essays on Censorship (1996) Stranger Shores: Literary Essays, 1986–1999 (2001) Inner Workings: Literary Essays, 2000–2005 (2007) Here and Now: Letters, 2008-2011 (2013)

Adaptations	Dust (film, 1985) The Lives of Animals (TV film, 2002) Waiting for the Barbarians (opera, 2006) Disgrace (film, 2008) Slow Man (opera, 2014)

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