9780374533649-0374533644-A Sorrow Beyond Dreams: A Life Story (FSG Classics)

A Sorrow Beyond Dreams: A Life Story (FSG Classics)

ISBN-13: 9780374533649
ISBN-10: 0374533644
Edition: Reprint
Author: Peter Handke
Publication date: 2012
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Paperback 96 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780374533649
ISBN-10: 0374533644
Edition: Reprint
Author: Peter Handke
Publication date: 2012
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Paperback 96 pages

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A Sorrow Beyond Dreams: A Life Story (FSG Classics) (ISBN-13: 9780374533649 and ISBN-10: 0374533644), written by authors Peter Handke, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2012. With an overall rating of 3.7 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent A Sorrow Beyond Dreams: A Life Story (FSG Classics) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $2.8.

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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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