{"product_id":"scenes-from-provincial-life-isbn-9780142422557","title":"Scenes from Provincial Life","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe Nobel Prize–winning author's brilliant trilogy of fictionalized memoirs—now available in one volume for the first time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eJ.M. Coetzee's latest novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Schooldays of Jesus\u003c\/i\u003e, is now available from Viking. \u003ci\u003eLate Essays: 2006-2016\u003c\/i\u003e will be available January 2018. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eFew writers have won as much critical acclaim and as many admirers in the literary world as J. M. Coetzee. Yet the celebrated author rarely spoke of himself until the 1997 arrival of \u003ci\u003eBoyhood\u003c\/i\u003e, a masterly and evocative tale of a young writer's beginnings. Continuing with the fiercely tender \u003ci\u003eYouth\u003c\/i\u003e and the innovative \u003ci\u003eSummertime\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eScenes from Provincial Life\u003c\/i\u003e is a heartbreaking and often very funny portrait of the artist by one of the world's greatest writers.“Many, this reviewer among them, would consider [Coetzee] the greatest living novelist in English.” — \u003cb\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“It’s a mark of Mr. Coetzee’s power as a storyteller that he makes a compelling, indeed, racing, narrative out of these hidden wheels within wheels.” — \u003cb\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“South Africa’s most brilliant novelist . . . challenges us to doubt our preconceived notions not only of love but of truth itself.” — \u003cb\u003eThe Seattle times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Coetzee portrays his younger self as scrawny and pretentious, but even if this insistent humility is just another form of self-aggrandizement, the result is enthralling” — \u003cb\u003eEntertainment Weekly (an A rating)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A delight to read: It will make you angry, amused, scornful and sympathetic by turns.” — \u003cb\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/b\u003eBorn in Cape Town, South Africa, on February 9, 1940, John Michael Coetzee studied first at Cape Town and later at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned a Ph.D. degree in literature. In 1972 he returned to South Africa and joined the faculty of the University of Cape Town. His works of fiction include \u003cb\u003eDusklands, Waiting for the Barbarians\u003c\/b\u003e, which won South Africa’s highest literary honor, the Central News Agency Literary Award, and the \u003cb\u003eLife and Times of Michael K\u003c\/b\u003e., for which Coetzee was awarded his first Booker Prize in 1983. He has also published a memoir, \u003cb\u003eBoyhood: Scenes From a Provincial Life\u003c\/b\u003e, and several essays collections. He has won many other literary prizes including the Lannan Award for Fiction, the Jerusalem Prize and The \u003cb\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/b\u003e International Fiction Prize. In 1999 he again won Britain’s prestigious Booker Prize for \u003cb\u003eDisgrace\u003c\/b\u003e, becoming the first author to win the award twice in its 31-year history. In 2003, Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303146279141,"sku":"NP9780142422557","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780142422557.jpg?v=1767736183","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/scenes-from-provincial-life-isbn-9780142422557","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}