{"product_id":"gathering-evidencemy-prizes-9781400077625","title":"Gathering Evidence\/My Prizes","description":"Written with a dark pain and drama that recalls the novels of Dickens, \u003ci\u003eGathering Evidence\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful and compelling memoir of youth by one of the twentieth century's most gifted writers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBorn in 1931, the illegitimate child of an abandoned mother, Thomas Bernhard was brought up by an eccentric grandmother and an adored grandfather in right-wing, Catholic Austria. He ran away from home at age fifteen. Three years later, he contracted pneumonia and was placed in a hospital ward for the old and terminally ill, where he observed first-hand--and with unflinching acuity--the cruel nature of protracted suffering and death. From the age of twenty-one, everything he wrote was shaped by the urgency of a dying man's testament--and where this account of his life ends, his art begins. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIncluded in this edition is \u003ci\u003eMy Prizes\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of Bernhard's viciously funny and revelatory essays on his later literary life. Here is a portrait of the artist as a prize-winner: laconic, sardonic, shaking his head with biting amusement at the world and at himself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/29\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781400077625\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.03h x 5.31w x 0.88d","brand":"Thomas Bernhard","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43544250974389,"sku":"9781400077625","price":18.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_2705cbb8-a267-441a-adf2-e31fff1b584b.jpg?v=1706120502","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/gathering-evidencemy-prizes-9781400077625","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}