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).Author: Peter Handke
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 12/10/2007
Series: FSG Classics
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.4lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780374531065
Language: English
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