Youth
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Word Count
42,250 words, Guess
Page Count
169 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveyouth00coet_1
- Internet Archiveyouth0000coet
- ISBN-100436205823
- ISBN-139780436205828
- LibraryThing105432
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- Goodreads1217347
- Library of Congress Control Number2002503442
- OCLC Control Number49907641
- Better World Books9780436205828
- Open LibraryOL3653494M
Classifications
- DDC823/.914
- LCCPR9369.3.C58 Y68 2002b
- LCCPR9369.3
Description
Een jonge Zuid-Afrikaanse intellectueel gaat in de jaren '60 in Londen wonen om een groot en meeslepend dichter te worden.
Description
The narrator of Youth, a student in the South Africa of the 1950s, has long been plotting an escape from his native country: from the stifling love of his mother, from a father whose failures haunt him, and from what he is sure is impending revolution. Studying mathematics, reading poetry, saving money, he tries to ensure that when he arrives in the real world, wherever that may be, he will be prepared to experience life to its full intensity, and transform it into art. Arriving at last in London, however, he finds neither poetry nor romance. Instead he succumbs to the monotony of life as a computer programmer, from which random, loveless affairs offer no relief. Devoid of inspiration, he stops writing. An awkward colonial, a constitutional outsider, he begins a dark pilgrimage in which he is continually tested and continually found wanting.--BOOK JACKET.
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