The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick - (FSG Classics) by Peter Handke (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>The first of Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke's novels to be published in English, <i>The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick </i>is a true modern classic that portrays the...breakdown of a murderer in ways that recall Camus's <i>The Stranger</i> (<i>The New York Times). </i></b> <p/>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 (<i>Boston Sunday Globe). </i></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Handke became the <i>enfant terrible </i>of the European avant-garde, denouncing all social, psychological and historical categories of experience as species of linguistic fraud. But [he] has aged well and now...is regarded as one of the most important writers in German." --<i>Richard Locke, The New York Times</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Peter Handke</b> was born in Griffen, Austria, in 1942. A novelist, playwright, and translator, he is the author of such acclaimed works as <i>The Moravian Night</i>, <i>A Sorrow Beyond Dreams</i>, <i>The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick</i>, and <i>Repetition</i>. The recipient of multiple literary awards, including the Franz Kafka Prize and the International Ibsen Award, Handke is also a filmmaker. He wrote and directed adaptations of his novels <i>The Left-Handed Woman</i> and <i>Absence</i>, and co-wrote the screenplays for Wim Wenders' <i>Wrong Movie </i>and <i>Wings of Desire.</i> He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2019.
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