The first of Peter Handke's novels to be published in English, The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick is a true modern classic that "portrays the...breakdown of a murderer in ways that recall Camus's The Stranger" (Richard Locke, The New York Times). The self-destruction of a soccer goalie turned construction worker who wanders aimlessly around a stifling Austrian border town after pursuing and then murdering, almost unthinkingly, a female movie cashier is mirrored by his use of direct, sometimes fractured prose that conveys "at its best a seamless blend of lyricism and horror seen in the runes of a disintegrating world" (Bill Marx, Boston Sunday Globe).
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Peter Handke was born in Griffen, Austria, in 1942. His most recent novel is Crossing the Sierra de Gredos (FSG, 2007).
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. THE GOALIE'S ANXIETY AT THE PENALTY KICK by Peter Handke. 1972 Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st US Edition/1st Printing. $6.95 pricing on DJ flap. Very Good+ in a Very Good- dust jacket - slight rubbing/shelf wear to spine ends & corners of boards; 0.75-inch closed tear on DJ bottom rear edge, modest rubbing/wear to DJ spine ends & corners & panels. Seller Inventory # ABE-1703632472062
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