The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick - Paperback
by Peter Handke
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Availability:In StockContributor:Peter Handke, Michael RoloffSeries:FSG ClassicsPublish date:2007-12-10Pages:144
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374531065ISBN-10:374531064UPC:9780374531065Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, World LiteratureBook Topic:AustriaSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.4Product ID:SC2P0496AP
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 of a soccer goalie turned construction worker who wanders aimlessly around a stifling Austrian border town after pursuing and then murdering, almost unthinkingly, a female movie cashier is mirrored by Handke's use of direct, sometimes fractured prose that conveys "at its best a seamless blend of lyricism and horror seen in the runes of a disintegrating world" (Boston Sunday Globe).Languages:EnglishPublisher:Farrar, Straus and GirouxISBN-13:9780374531065ISBN-10:374531064UPC:9780374531065Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, World LiteratureBook Topic:AustriaSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.4Product ID:SC2P0496AP
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.
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