"The Sunday edition of the Kärntner 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, Handke's reckoning with his mother's lifewhich spanned the rise of the Nazis, World War II, and postwar sufferingand 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).
"The Sunday edition of the Kärntner 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, Handke's reckoning with his mother's lifewhich spanned the rise of the Nazis, World War II, and postwar sufferingand 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).
A Sorrow beyond Dreams: A Life Story
96A Sorrow beyond Dreams: A Life Story
96Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780374533649 |
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Publisher: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Publication date: | 10/30/2012 |
Series: | FSG Classics |
Pages: | 96 |
Sales rank: | 125,738 |
Product dimensions: | 5.40(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.40(d) |