From the Diary of a Snail. Translated by Ralph Manheim

Grass, Gunter (1927- )

ISBN 10: 0151338000 / ISBN 13: 9780151338009

Published by New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973

About this Item

Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 310 pages; Description: 310 p. Front. 21 cm. Translation of Aus dem Tagebuch einer Schnecke. Subject: Grass, Gunter, 1927- -- Fiction 3 Kg.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: From the Diary of a Snail. Translated by Ralph Manheim
• Publisher: New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
• Publication Date: 1973
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0151338000
• ISBN 13: 9780151338009
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition in this form.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Weight: 3 kilograms

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Synopsis

For Grass, the snail with its slow, prudent pace, becomes the symbol true progess, the progress Grass and the tiredly ploding men of his party are fighting for.

About the Author

Gunter Grass (1927-2015) was Germany's most celebrated post-war writer. He was a creative artist of remarkable versatility: novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, graphic artist. Grass's first novel, The Tin Drum, is widely regarded as one of the finest novels of the twentieth century, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999.