A Sorrow Beyond Dreams: A Life Story
Peter Handke$14.45
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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).
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Published: 10/30/2012
ISBN: 9780374533649
Pages: 69
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.50w x 0.40d