The Left-Handed Woman (First American Edition))

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1978. First U.S. edition. First printing. Hardbound. Fine in a fine dust jacket. A clean, tight copy. Publisher's price intact on front jacket flap ($7.95). Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. Octavo, 87 pages. Originally published in German as "Die linkshändige Frau" (1976), this is Handke’s fourth novel, translated by Ralph Manheim. It follows Marianne, a young mother in West Germany, who abruptly asks her husband to leave and begins a solitary, introspective life. A meditation on alienation and selfhood, the novel was adapted by Handke himself into a 1978 film that premiered at Cannes. Handke was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2019.