{"product_id":"slow-homecoming-peter-handke-9781590173077","title":"Slow Homecoming","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBy Nobel Prize Winner Peter Handke\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProvocative, romantic, and restlessly exploratory, Peter Handke is one of the great writers of our time. \u003ci\u003eSlow Homecoming\u003c\/i\u003e, originally published in the late 1970s, is central to his achievement and to the powerful influence he has exercised on other writers, chief among them W.G. Sebald. A novel of self-questioning and self-discovery, \u003ci\u003eSlow Homecoming\u003c\/i\u003e is a singular odyssey, an escape from the distractions of the modern world and the unhappy consciousness, a voyage that is fraught and fearful but ultimately restorative, ending on an unexpected note of joy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book begins in America. Writing with the jarring intensity of his early work, Handke introduces Valentin Sorger, a troubled geologist who has gone to Alaska to lose himself in his work, but now feels drawn back home: on his way to Europe he moves in ominous disorientation through the great cities of America. The second part of the book, \"The Lesson of Mont Sainte-Victoire,\" identifies Sorger as a projection of the author, who now writes directly about his own struggle to reconstitute himself and his art by undertaking a pilgrimage to the great mountain that C zanne painted again and again. Finally, \"Child Story\" is a beautifully observed, deeply moving account of a new father--not so much Sorger or the author as a kind of Everyman--and his love for his growing daughter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Handke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1590173074\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781590173077\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/31\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.96h x 5.16w x 0.67d","brand":"Peter Handke","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43938455355647,"sku":"9781590173077","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_c298a8ce-b56d-4a0d-88e5-87731cae10e2.jpg?v=1681435789","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/slow-homecoming-peter-handke-9781590173077","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}