Journal Entry 1 by tranq1 from Tampa, Florida USA on Tuesday, December 06, 2011

The second installment of J. M. Coetzee's fictionalized "memoir" explores a young man's struggle to experience life to its full intensity and transform it into art. The narrator of Youth has long been plotting an escape-from the stifling love of his overbearing mother, a father whose failures haunt him, and what he is sure is impending revolution in his native country of South Africa. Arriving at last in London in the 1960s, however, he finds neither poetry nor romance and instead begins a dark pilgrimage into adulthood. Youth is a remarkable portrait of a consciousness, isolated and adrift, turning in on itself, of a young man struggling to find his way in the world, written with tenderness and a fierce clarity.

 

Journal Entry 2 by tranq1 at round robin readers book exchange, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases on Tuesday, December 06, 2011

Released 5 mos ago (12/6/2011 UTC) at round robin readers book exchange, A Bookcrossing member -- Controlled Releases

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Sending to msjoanna for the Round Robin Book Exchange, because it is on her wishlist. 

Journal Entry 3 by msjoanna at Columbia, Missouri USA on Sunday, December 25, 2011

Hooray! I've been wanting to read more of Coetzee and this three-part fictionalized memoir has gotten excellent reviews. Thanks for sharing!