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1 - A Sorrow Beyond Dreams: A Life Story
Peter Handke · New York Review Books
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"The Sunday edition of the Kärntner Volkszeitung carried the following item under 'Local News': 'In the village of A. (G. township) , a housewife, aged 51, committed suicide on Friday night by taking an overdose of sleeping pills.'"So opens A Sorrow Beyond Dreams,... |
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2 - The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick: A Novel
Peter Handke · Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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The first of Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke's novels to be published in English, The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick is a true modern classic that "portrays the ... breakdown of a murderer in ways that recall Camus's The Stranger" (The New York Times) . The self-destruction... |
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5 - The Moravian Night: A Story
Peter Handke · Farrar
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An odyssey through the mind and memory of a washed-up writer, from one of Europe's most provocative novelistsMysteriously summoned to a houseboat on the Morava River, a few friends, associates, and collaborators of an old writer listen as he tells a story that will last until dawn:... |
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9 - KASPAR AND OTHER PLAYS
Peter Handke · Hill and Wang
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Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke's first full-length drama, hailed in Europe as "the play of the decade" and compared in importance to Waiting for GodotKaspar is the story of an autistic adolescent who finds himself at a complete existential loss on the stage, with but a single... |
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11 - A Sorrow Beyond Dreams
Peter Handke · Pushkin Press
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"My mother has been dead for almost seven weeks: I had better go to work before the need to write about her, which I felt so strongly at her funeral, dies away and I fall back into the dull speechlessness with which I reacted to the nerves of her suicide."So begins Peter Handke's... |
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