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Publisher: Vintage
Date of Publication: 1990
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Description: 0749390506
Date of Publication: 1990
Binding: soft back
Edition:
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 0749390506
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'As West German society increasingly took on a gloss of economic well-being, Böll's trenchant novels cut through the sleek outward show to reveal festering fears, skinned-over malignities and suppurating psychic states exuding poison into the system. Women in a River Landscape - completed just before Boll's death in 1985 - brings this process to a fierce, fine culmination.
Composed of dialogues and soliloquies from a cast of late-middle-aged or elderly figures, it dramatically portrays a terrified and terrifying world. As its characters whisper, hint, frightenedly hush each other or exchange confidences during sleepless nights, the novel's highly-polished milieu of politicians and financiers, industrialists and PR men takes on a ghastly shadiness like that of some Jacobean drama of covert atrocity, lurking menace, blackmail, eavesdropping and pitiless power struggle ... Böll brings a humane understanding as well as indignation to the predicaments of characters who seem not only tainted culprits but also victims of history' Sunday Times
'This book typifies Böll's virtues: a bold inventiveness of form, a gritty anger at the world's corruption and injustice, a warmly humorous indulgence towards human fragility, a brave determination to face the facts without lecturing us about them. As a man and as a writer, he is sorely missed' Independent
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Composed of dialogues and soliloquies from a cast of late-middle-aged or elderly figures, it dramatically portrays a terrified and terrifying world. As its characters whisper, hint, frightenedly hush each other or exchange confidences during sleepless nights, the novel's highly-polished milieu of politicians and financiers, industrialists and PR men takes on a ghastly shadiness like that of some Jacobean drama of covert atrocity, lurking menace, blackmail, eavesdropping and pitiless power struggle ... Böll brings a humane understanding as well as indignation to the predicaments of characters who seem not only tainted culprits but also victims of history' Sunday Times
'This book typifies Böll's virtues: a bold inventiveness of form, a gritty anger at the world's corruption and injustice, a warmly humorous indulgence towards human fragility, a brave determination to face the facts without lecturing us about them. As a man and as a writer, he is sorely missed' Independent
The survival of guilt and corruption into post-war German prosperity is demonstrated in this novel by the prize-winning German writer, who brings both anger and humane understanding to his characters and their predicament.
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- PublisherVintage Classics
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0749390506
- ISBN 13 9780749390501
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages224
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