9780374281540
Crossing the Sierra De Gredos
Peter Handke
ISBN 13: 9780374281540
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Publication Date: 2007
Binding: Hardcover
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A powerful woman banker decides to turn away from the world of high finance and modern life to embark on a quest to meet the famous writer she has commissioned to undertake her biography.
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"This newest fiction shows [Handke] at his best *and* worst....Yeats called it 'the fascination of the difficult.' Nobody writing today surpasses Peter Handke at trying to make sense of it all."
Kirkus, 05/01/2007
Review:"Handke has a keen ear for exposing the clichés that cloud people's thinking."
Michael McDonald, Weekly Standard, 01/14/2008
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Book Description: Farrar Straus Giroux, United States, 2007. Hardback. Book Condition: New. American. 236 x 162 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. On the outskirts of a northwestern European riverport city lives a powerful woman banker, a public figure admired and hated in equal measure, who has decided to turn from the worlds of high finance and modern life to embark on a quest. Having commissioned a famous writer to undertake her "authentic" biography, she journeys through the Spanish Sierra de Gredos and the region of La Mancha to meet him. As she travels by allterrain vehicle, bus, and finally on foot, the nameless protagonist encounters five way stations that become the stuff of her biography and the biography of the modern world, a world in which genuine images and unmediated experiences have been exploited and falsified by commercialization and by the voracious mass media. In this visionary novel, Peter Handke offers descriptions of objects, relationships, and events that teach readers a renewed way of seeing; he creates a wealth of images to replace those lost to convention and conformity. "Crossing the Sierra de Gredos" is also a very human book of yearning and the ancient quest forlove, peopled with memorable characters (from multiple historical periods) and imbued with Handke's inimitable ability to portray universal, inner-worldly adventures that blend past, future, present, and dreamtime. Bookseller Inventory # AAC9780374281540 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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