The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
Author(s): Handke, Peter
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE
'Portrays the breakdown of a murderer in ways that recall Camus' The Stranger' The New York Times
Joseph Bloch, a once-famous goalkeeper turned construction worker, commits a random murder without thought or regret. As he wanders the streets, from hotel to bar, cinema to tram stop, experiencing strange and violent encounters on the way, he finds himself, and everything around him, disintegrating. Told in spare and icy prose, Peter Handke's masterpiece of alienation takes apart our ideas of humanity and reality itself.
'A Kafkaesque crime novel' Los Angeles Times
Translated by Michael Roloff
Product Information
General Fields
- :
- : Penguin Canada
- : Penguin Canada
- : 0.078
- : 06 August 2020
- : 1.2 Centimeters X 12.8 Centimeters X 19.4 Centimeters
- : books
Special Fields
- : Handke, Peter
- : 96
- : 833.914
- : English
- : 1
- : BC