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1	Kaspar and other plays. more books like this by Peter Handke "Kaspar," Peter Handke's first full-length drama--hailed in Europe as "the play of the decade" and compared in importance to "Waiting for Godot"--is the story of an autistic adolescent who finds himself at a complete existential loss on the stage, with but a single sentence to call his own. Drilled by prompters who use terrifyingly funny logical ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.76! \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Making of Modern Drama: A Study of Buchner, Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Pirandello, Brecht, Handke more books like this by Richard Gilman This highly acclaimed critical exploration of modern drama begins with Buchner and Ibsen and then discusses the major playwrights who have shaped modern theater -- Strindberg, Chekhov, Pirandello, Brecht, Beckett, and Handke. A new introduction by the author assesses developments of recent years. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $23.15! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Slow homecoming more books like this by Peter Handke Three novels and a dramatic poem, including THE LONG WAY AROUND (1979), in which an Austrian geologist in Alaska loses his spacial sense; THE LESSON OF SAINTE VICTOIRE (1985), about a writer who can perceive color but not feel anything toward it, a missing sense that gradually returns through his interactions with nature and with other people; and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
4	Crossing the Sierra de Gredos by Peter Handke, Krishna Winston (Translator) In this visionary novel, Handke offers descriptions of objects, relationships, and events that teach readers a renewed way of seeing. Following humankinds ancient quest for love, this book is peopled with memorable characters and universal adventures. see all copies from $2.98! new only from $2.98! \| first editions \| SVS
5	The left-handed woman more books like this by Peter Handke see all copies from $6.49! first editions
6	I Am Zoe Handke more books like this by Eric Larsen At the end of Larsen's prize-winning first novel, An American Memory, his hero, Malcolm Reiner, marries Zoe Handke. Now Larsen offers an extraordinary portrait of Zoe, a strange, grave, elegant girl who finally triumphs over her own terror to offer limitless love to her children. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	Across more books like this by Peter Handke Handke's famously detached observer is the narrator of this strange tale about a man who becomes liberated through an act of violence--the sudden, unpremeditated killing of a neo-Nazi. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.95! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Once Again for Thucydides more books like this by Peter Handke, Tess Lewis (Translator) Twelve short journals Handke kept on his travels around the world, each concentrating on observations of seemingly insignificant things--snow melting in a garden, a shoeshine man--that sum up his experience, and always hint at the unknown and the mysterious. see all copies from $2.75! new only from $4.11! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Absence. more books like this by Peter Handke An old man, a young woman, a gambler and a soldier set off from an undefined, quasi-European city on a pilgrimage into the desert. The aim of their quest is obscure, their journey is mapped out as a changing sequence of scenes, perspectives and dislocated monologues. see all copies from $2.11! new only from $11.01! \| first editions \| SVS
10	A Sorrow Beyond Dreams: A Life Story more books like this by Peter Handke After his mother’s suicide, Austrian novelist and playwright Peter Handke wanted to set down what he knew, or could say, about her life and the causes of her death before “the dull speechlessness ... the extreme speechlessness” of grief took hold forever. The result is an unsparing, deeply moving elegy in which writing keeps vigil at the limits of ... see all copies from $5.25! new only from $7.75! \| first editions \| SVS
11	Three by Peter Handke more books like this by Peter Handke see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
12	On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House more books like this by Peter Handke, Krishna Winston (Translator) A short, powerful new novel by one of the greatest writers in the German language "On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House" is Peter Handke's evocative, moving, often fantastic, novel about one man's conflict with himself and his journey toward resolution. During one night shift, an unnamed, middle-aged pharmacist in Taxham, an isolated suburb of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.50! \| first editions
13 view cover	The goalie's anxiety at the penalty kick more books like this by Peter Handke 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 ... see all copies from $5.99! new only from $7.46! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	A Journey to the Rivers: Justice for Serbia more books like this by Peter Handke, Scott Abbott (Translator) Handke's travelogue cum report from Serbia has raised a firestorm of controversy in Europe. Handke went to Serbia in 1995, the result of his growing mistrust of the way he felt the Western media reported and misreported the conflict, which he saw as prejudicial to a recognition of the possible validity of the Serbian position and their prosecution ... see all copies from $7.47! first editions
15 view cover	Repetition more books like this by Peter Handke Filip Kobal goes searching for his brother and finds much more than he had hoped, including an episode from his own past. The novel takes place in the summer of 1960. see all copies from $1.99! first editions
16	Wunschloses Ungluck more books like this by Peter Handke This short novel by Peter Handke is the biography of the narrator's mother. It is set against the backdrop of events in Austrian history, with emphasis upon the "Anschluss" of 1938 and the resulting hardships endured by rural women. These pressures, in the case of the narrator's mother, resulted in her suicide. This text, aimed at A level and ... see all copies from $4.94! new only from $9.37! \| signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	Peter Handke and the Postmodern Transformation: The Goalie's Journey Home more books like this by Jerome Klinkowitz, James Knowlton see all copies from $1.99! new only from $40.28!
18 view cover	The Jukebox and Other Essays on Storytelling more books like this by Peter Handke, Krishna Winston (Translator), Ralph Manheim (Translator) These three brilliant, witty, and highly original essays explore tiredness, digressions, boredom, the Beatles, Handke's childhood, and the nostalgic search for a particular kind of juke box, among many other subjects. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.67! \| first editions
19	Kaspar more books like this by Peter Handke see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.88! \| first editions \| SVS
20	Peter Handke more books like this by Richard Firda see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.00! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	My Year in the No-Man's-Bay more books like this by Peter Handke, Krishna Winston (Translator) This novel is a meditation on one year in a writer's life, specifically his preoccupations with Roman law, the poetry of Hölderlin, hunting wild mushrooms, and making the right decision about where to live. see all copies from $4.56! new only from $16.98! \| first editions
22 view cover	Short letter, long farewell more books like this by Peter Handke Peter Handke's early novel "Short Letter, Long Farewell" is one of his most inventive and exhilarating books. Full of seedy noir atmospherics and boasting an air of generalized delirium, the book begins by introducing us to a young German who has just arrived in America, where he hopes to get over the collapse of his marriage. No sooner has he ... see all copies from $2.95! first editions
23	A Moment of True Feeling by Peter Handke see all copies from $4.61! first editions
24	Peter Handke more books like this by Nicholas Hern see all copies from $1.99! first editions
25	Nonsense and happiness more books like this by Peter Handke, Michael Roloff see all copies from $3.75! first editions

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