A Sorrow Beyond Dreams - A Life Story
Author(s): Peter Handke; Jeffrey Eugenides (Introduction by); Ralph Manheim (Translator)
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"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, the eminent Austrian novelist and playwright Peter 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).
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- : Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- : Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- : 0.09
- : 30 September 2012
- : .28 Inches X 5.68 Inches X 8.19 Inches
- : books
Special Fields
- : Peter Handke; Jeffrey Eugenides (Introduction by); Ralph Manheim (Translator)
- : 96
- : English
- : Paperback