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After dining out with her husband to celebrate his return from a business trip, Marianne realizes that he will someday leave her and that she must learn to fend for herself and her young son now
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The Left-Handed Woman (English and German Edition)
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Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1978
ISBN 10: 0374184976
ISBN 13: 9780374184971
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First Edition
Seller: Brodsky Bookshop, Taos, NM, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover, with dust jacket. First American edition, 1978. Translated from German to English. 8vo(5.5 x 8.25 in.). Quarter-bound with rose paper and green cloth, at the spine. Stamped silver titling on spine. Good clean condition. Several pages have red ink in margins that mark a previous readers texts of interest. The dust jacket is white with some age evidence. Edgewear, especially at the spine. Still some gloss left, however. Previous owner's nameplate on the fixed front end page. Not a great copy but priced accordingly. Seller Inventory # 002026
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The Left-Handed Woman: A Novel
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Farrar Straus & Giroux, New York, 1978
ISBN 10: 0374184976
ISBN 13: 9780374184971
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Twinwillow Books, Los Alamitos, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition 1978 stated. 5 3/4 x 8 1/4 Book; binding tight, clean boards have modest bow; mild foxing to edges with small EX LIBRIS stamp in black to front free end page else text free of marks, appears barely read. Dust jacket ($7.95) has minor toning with mild bumping to mostly spine ends, 4" and 3" crease to top corner front flap with fading to publisher's titles to bottom spine. Color sharp to covers. Under archival quality mylar cover. Photos upon request. Packed well and shipped in a sturdy box. Seller Inventory # 110121GC
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The Left-Handed Woman
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G0374184976I3N00
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The Left-Handed Woman: A Novel.
Published by
Farrar Straus and Giroux, New York, NY, 1978
ISBN 10: 0374184976
ISBN 13: 9780374184971
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Black Cat Hill Books, Oregon City, OR, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. First Edition USA (1978), so stated. First Edition USA (1978), so stated. Very Good+ to Near Fine in Very Good DJ: The Book shows a thin line of sunning to the cloth of the head of the backstrip and to the very top edges of the boards; just a hint of shelving wear to the bottom edges of the boards; a tiny stain at the upper fore-edge; the signatures do not appear to be loose, but the first signature has sagged - or perhaps was bound - so that it is slightly lower than the others; the boards themselves are square; the binding is square and secure; the text is clean. Free of any creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting, marginalia or marks in the text. Free of ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, or labels. A handsome copy, tightly bound, showing mild wear and minor imperfections. Clean. Corners sharp. Not far from 'As New'. The DJ shows just a hint of soiling to the white backgrould field and some rubbing to the panels; faint wrinkling near the bottom edge of the rear panel and the heel of the backstrip; the price has been clipped; mylar-protected. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (8.25 x 5.7 x 0.6 inches). 89 pages. Translated by and Ralph Manheim. Language: English. Weight: 9.5 ouncse. Hardback with DJ. In 2019, Handke was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience.". Seller Inventory # 54133
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The Left-Handed Woman
Published by
Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1978
ISBN 10: 0374184976
ISBN 13: 9780374184971
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: FITZ BOOKS AND WAFFLES, Buffalo, NY, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. This is a clean, unmarked copy with light outer wear and slight toning to the dust jacket. Seller Inventory # ABE-1786653130223
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The Left-Handed Woman
Published by
Farrar Straus & Giroux, New York, 1978
ISBN 10: 0374184976
ISBN 13: 9780374184971
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Twinwillow Books, Los Alamitos, CA, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition 1978 stated. 5 3/4 x 8 1/4 Book; binding firm, modest bumping to top corners else boards straight and clean; mild toning to top edge else text free of marks, appears barely read. Dust jacket ($7.95) has modest toning with lengthy crease to front flap, three 1/2" closed tears to edges with moderate fading to publisher name to bottom spine. Color sharp to covers. Under archival quality mylar cover. Photos upon request. Packed well and shipped in a sturdy box. Seller Inventory # 032721GC
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The Left-Handed Woman
Published by
Farrar Straus Giroux, 1978
ISBN 10: 0374184976
ISBN 13: 9780374184971
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: zenosbooks, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Dustjacket. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. New York. 1978. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0374184976. Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim. 89 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Fred Marcellino. keywords: Europe Austria Literature Translated World Literature. DESCRIPTION - In his new novel, THE LEFT-HANDED WOMAN, which first appeared in its entirety in The New Yorker, Handke explores with power and vision the world of a woman alone. One evening, when Marianne and her husband, Bruno, are dining out together to celebrate his return from a business trip, Marianne listens to him speak and realizes suddenly yet finally that Bruno will leave her. Whether at that moment, or in years to come, she will be deserted. And instinctively Marianne knows she must fend for herself and her young son now, before that time comes. She sends Bruno away and settles down to a life alone, at first experiencing moments of panic, restlessly wandering in rooms grown stifling. The stillness of the house wears her down, and she starts taking long walks, or visiting with her close friend, Franziska. Gradually, what began as a selfish escape from the prospects of the future becomes in fact liberation. The environment she'd always hated - a no man's land of identical houses, with all curtains drawn - recedes; her relationships with those dear to her become less threatening, less necessary; and Marianne finds a new pattern for her life and the strength to go on alone. John Updike, in his New Yorker review of Peter Handke's earlier book A Moment of True Feeling, wrote: 'Handke is widely regarded as the best young writer, and by many as the best writer altogether, in his language; and there is no denying his willful intensity and knifelike clarity of evocation. He writes from an area beyond psychology, where feelings acquire the adamancy of randomly encountered, geologically analyzed pebbles. At his best, Handke is a kind of nature poet, a romantic whose exacerbated nerves cling like pained ivy to the landscape.' inventory #24571. Seller Inventory # z24571
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The Left-Handed Woman (English and German Edition)
Published by
Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1978
ISBN 10: 0374184976
ISBN 13: 9780374184971
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. DJ in archival cover.Stated first edition.1. Seller Inventory # 008618
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The Left-Handed Woman (First American Edition))
Published by
Farrar Straus & Giroux, New York, 1978
ISBN 10: 0374184976
ISBN 13: 9780374184971
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Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Dan Pope Books, West Hartford, CT, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st 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. Seller Inventory # Fiction-Handke-5