The Left-Handed Woman (First American Edition))

Handke, Peter

ISBN 10: 0374184976 / ISBN 13: 9780374184971

Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, New York, 1978

About this Item

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.

Seller Inventory # Fiction-Handke-5

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Left-Handed Woman (First American Edition))
• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, New York
• Publication Date: 1978
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374184976
• ISBN 13: 9780374184971
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • German Literature

About this title

Synopsis

Fictional Novel, Literary Fiction

Language Notes

Text: English, German (translation)