9780374267209

Book Description: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Hardcover. Book Condition: Good. 0374267200 Used, in good condition. Book only. May have interior marginalia or previous owner's name. We are an actual bricks & mortar bookstore!. Bookseller Inventory # 0374267200

Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question

Book Description: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1975. Hardcover. Book Condition: good. First Edition. 0374267200. Bookseller Inventory # 572790

Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question

Book Description: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1E, 1975. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. This specific book is in fine/unread condition with a hard board cover that has sharp edges/corners and a tight binding. The pages are clean, crisp, unmarked and uncreased. The dust jacket is in fine condition with only the slightest bit of cover or edge wear. This is a remarkable book and is in fine condition. ; This book is the product of a man who has built an international reputation on the strength of his plays, novels, and poems. The book is about his personal confrontation with his mother's suicide. It is a meeting that taxes his intelligence, his memory, and his soul. He begins this book by saying, "My mother has been dead for almost seven weeks; I had better get to work before the need to write about her, which I felt so strongly at her funeral, dies away and I fall back into the dull speechlessness with which I reacted to the news of her suicide." ; 0.6 x 8.1 x 5.7 Inches; 69 pages. Bookseller Inventory # 5470

Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question

Book Description: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1975. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: near fine. First American edition. First American edition. Price-clipped, else a fine copy in jacket with one tiny closed tear at the bottom of the rear panel. A clean copy of a scarce book. Bookseller Inventory # 45

Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question

Book Description: New York City, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1975. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 70 pages. Published in 1975. The author's third book to be translated into English. One of the greatest books of the 20th century. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. The book is now very scarce. It was reissued in 2007 as part of the New York Review of Books (NYRB) Classics Series. Presents Peter Handke's account of his mother's life and eventual suicide. "A remarkable portrait, at once bleak and rich, of a woman and a world that could not sustain her. Item by item, Handke assembles pieces of his mother's life, all talismans that failed to protect her. She emerges alive in her pain and despair, a woman well into middle age, her dreams unfulfilled, living toward an uncertain old age in the village of her birth. Readers familiar with Handke's work know what sensitivity and precision to expect from him. But even they will be struck by the dignity and intimacy of 'A Sorrow Beyond Dreams', a masterpiece of restraint whose tact is handmaiden to its overwhelming power" (Publisher's blurb). Suicide is ultimately incomprehensible. Handke's account is one-of-a-kind: The pieces of his mother's life (her childhood, her family, her life as a young woman, her motherhood, and even the objects she loved and used everyday) form a mosaic-like portrait where none of the pieces fits neatly into place, and Handke refuses to explain why she ended it all, a feat of moral and psychological poise. Ascribing it to depression or feelings of hopelessness, as we often do today, is shallow pop psychology. Despite the odds, Man (and Woman) is driven to survive, to fight, and to prevail. Man/Woman is also deeply vulnerable to grief and loss. Handke's attempt to come to terms with his mother's suicide, a "sorrow beyond dreams", is regarded by the controversial author's admirers and critics alike as one of his purest achievements. A "must-have" title for Peter Handke collectors. This title has been out-of-print for more than thirty years and is now highly collectible. This is one of extremely few copies of the First American Edition still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. All other copies available online have major flaws. A very scarce copy thus. One of the most important and influential living writers. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER PETER HANDKE TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0374267200. no. Bookseller Inventory # 12932

Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question

Book Description: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1975. Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dust jacket. Stated First Edition. Rare; 0.6 x 8.1 x 5.7 Inches; 69 pages. Bookseller Inventory # 27625

Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question