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Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II
Youth (or Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II) (2002) is a semi-fictionalised autobiographical novel by J. M. Coetzee, recounting his struggles in 1960s London after fleeing the political unrest of Cape Town.
Plot summary.
The story begins with the narrator living in Mowbray and studying at the University of Cape Town. After graduating in mathematics and English and in the wake of the Sharpeville massacre he moves to London in the hope of finding inspiration of becoming a poet
Life" (2011) . An edited single volume of "Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life", "Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II", and "Summertime".
Short fiction.
- Collections
- "The Lives of Animals" (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999)
- "Three Stories" (Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2014)
- "Moral Tales" (forthcoming).
- Stories
Criticism.
- "Truth in Autobiography" (Cape