The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick

ISBN: 9780374531065
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The first of 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" (Richard Locke, 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 his 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" (Bill Marx, Boston Sunday Globe).

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Handke, Peter
  • ISBN: 9780374531065
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.40 x 0.50
  • Number Of Pages: 133
  • Publication Year: 2007