The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
Author(s): Peter Handke; Michael Roloff (Translator)
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).
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- : Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- : December 2007
- : books
Special Fields
- : Peter Handke; Michael Roloff (Translator)
- : Paperback