Before you leave...
Take 20% off your first order
20% off
Enter the code below at checkout to get 20% off your first order
A Sorrow Beyond Dreams: A Life Story (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780374533649)
Vendor:
Peter Handke
Product type:
Books
- $17.00
$17.00- $17.00
- Unit price
- per
Subtotal:
$17.00
Description
xNobel 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 K舐ntner 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).Author: Peter Handke
ISBN-10: 0374533644
ISBN-13: 9780374533649
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language: English
Published: 10/30/2012
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.50w x 0.40d
By Peter Handke
xPeter 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.
Recently Viewed Products
- Choosing a selection results in a full page refresh.