The Goalkeeper's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick

By:

Peter Handke

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Penguin Modern Classics

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One of 2019 Nobel Laureate for Literature's most important works, a spare and haunting novel of alienation 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 the dislocation and dej vu of modern twentieth-century life.

Author Biography:

Peter Handke was born in Griffen, Austria, in 1942. A novelist, playwright, and translator he is the author of such acclaimed works as The Moravian Night, A Sorrow Beyond Dreams, The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick and Repetition. 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 The Left-Handed Woman and Absence, and co-wrote the screenplays for Wim Wenders' Wrong Movie and Wings of Desire. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2019.

Release date Australia

August 6th, 2020

Author

Peter Handke

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Country of Publication

United Kingdom

Imprint

Penguin Classics

Pages

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Series

Penguin Modern Classics

Dimensions

129x198x5

ISBN-13

9780241457696

Product ID

32757534

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