The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick - A Novel

Informationen zum Autor Peter Handke; Translated from the German by Michael Roloff Klappentext 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).

Product details

• Authors: Peter Handke, Peter/ Roloff Handke
• Assisted by: Michael Roloff (Translation)
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 10.12.2007
• EAN: 9780374531065
• ISBN: 978-0-374-53106-5
• No. of pages: 133
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 13 mm
• Series: FSG Classics; FSG Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Österreichische SchriftstellerInnen; Werke (div.), Handke, Peter