{"product_id":"youth","title":"Youth","description":"\u003cp style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 10.5pt;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Segoe UI', sans-serif; color: #212b36; text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eSecond-Hand (Hardcover)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eVery Good condition\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStudying 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArriving 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDevoid 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSet against the background of the 1960s - Sharpeville, the Cuban missile crisis, Vietnam - \u003cem\u003eYouth\u003c\/em\u003e is a remarkable portrait of a consciousness, isolated and adrift, turning in on itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJ.M. Coetzee explores a young man's struggle to find his way in the world with tenderness and a fierce clarity.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff2a00;\"\u003e\u003ca style=\"color: #ff2a00;\" href=\"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com\/search?q=J.M.+Coetzee\u0026amp;options%5Bprefix%5D=last\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com\/search?q=J.M.+Coetzee\u0026amp;options%5Bprefix%5D=last\"\u003eMore books by J.M. Coetzee\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e","brand":"J.M. Coetzee","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42240826540201,"sku":"","price":5.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/products\/youth.jpg?v=1653626919","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/youth","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}