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Peter Handke
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Title: |
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The goalie's anxiety at the penalty kick, |
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English |
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Paperback |
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133 |
Date: |
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1972 |
ISBN: |
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0374163766 |
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
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0.65 pounds |
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5.2 x 8.3 x 0.7 inches |
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Product Description
The first of 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" (Richard Locke, 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 his 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" (Bill Marx, Boston Sunday Globe).
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http://bookmooch.com/0374163766 |
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