Boyhood : a memoir. Scenes from provincial life

Revisiting the South Africa of half a century ago, the author writes about his childhood and interior life, evoking the tensions, delights and terrors of childhood with startling, haunting immediacy.

'Boyhood is a deeply-felt and utterly compelling account of a South African child [...]
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Revisiting the South Africa of half a century ago, the author writes about his childhood and interior life, evoking the tensions, delights and terrors of childhood with startling, haunting immediacy.

'Boyhood is a deeply-felt and utterly compelling account of a South African childhood: the narrative style is as spare and lean as the Karoo flatlands which form its backdrop' Daily Telegraph