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A Sorrow Beyond Dreams : A Life Story
Overview
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 K rntner 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).Customers Also Bought
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780374533649
- ISBN-10: 0374533644
- Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Publish Date: October 2012
- Dimensions: 8 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.2 pounds
- Page Count: 96
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