Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life

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

Last updated July 01, 2025

Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life is a fictionalised autobiographical work by J. M. Coetzee which 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 to Plumstead, Cape Town.^[1]

References

↑ Coetzee, J. M. (1997). Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life. Viking. ISBN 978-0-670-87220-6.

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[1] Coetzee, J. M. (1997). Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life. Viking. ISBN 978-0-670-87220-6.

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v t e 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) Slow Man (2005) Diary of a Bad Year (2007) The Childhood of Jesus (2013) The Schooldays of Jesus (2016) The Death of Jesus (2019) The Pole and Other Stories (2023)
"Autrebiography"	Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life (1997) Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II (2002) Summertime (2009)
Criticism and letters	White Writing (1988) Inner Workings (2007) Here and Now (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) Waiting for the Barbarians (film, 2019)