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A Sorrow Beyond Dreams: A Life Story

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by Peter Handke
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Availability:In StockContributor:Peter Handke, Ralph Manheim (Translator), Jeffrey Eugenides (Introduction by)Series:FSG ClassicsPublish date:2012-10-30Pages:96
Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374533649ISBN-10:374533644UPC:9780374533649Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Personal MemoirsSize:8.00 x 5.50 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.2006Product ID:SCED4XZJZR

Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke--"the extravagantly talented Austrian playwright of chutzpah, novelist of sensibility, poet of linguistic games" (Kirkus)--ponders the life and early death of his mother

"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, Handke's reckoning with his mother's life--which spanned the rise of the Nazis, World War II, and postwar suffering--and death. Both stark and lyrical, full of love, anger, admiration, and a keen sense of history, this slim book reveals Handke at his most lucid and direct. It is the most moving and accessible work in his distinguished career; it is "indispensable" (Bill Marx, The Boston Globe).
Language:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374533649ISBN-10:374533644UPC:9780374533649Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Personal MemoirsSize:8.00 x 5.50 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.2006Product ID:SCED4XZJZR
Peter Handke was born in Griffen, Austria, in 1942. A novelist, playwright, and translator, he is the author of such acclaimed works as The Moravian Night, A Sorrow Beyond Dreams, The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, and Repetition. The recipient of multiple literary awards, including the Franz Kafka Prize and the International Ibsen Award, Handke is also a filmmaker. He wrote and directed adaptations of his novels The Left-Handed Woman and Absence, and co-wrote the screenplays for Wim Wenders' Wrong Movie and Wings of Desire. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2019.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Peter Handke, Ralph Manheim (Translator), Jeffrey Eugenides (Introduction by)

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Peter Handke

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