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Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke--the extravagantly talented Austrian playwright of chutzpah, novelist of sensibility, poet of linguistic games (Kirkus)--ponders the life and early death of his mother

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 life--which spanned the rise of the Nazis, World War II, and postwar suffering--and 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).

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    A Paperback / softback by Peter Handke, Professor Ralph Manheim, Jeffrey Eugenides

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      Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 30/10/2012
      ISBN13: 9780374533649, 978-0374533649
      ISBN10: 0374533644
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke--the extravagantly talented Austrian playwright of chutzpah, novelist of sensibility, poet of linguistic games (Kirkus)--ponders the life and early death of his mother

      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 life--which spanned the rise of the Nazis, World War II, and postwar suffering--and 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).

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