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      The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick

      by Peter Handke
      Published
      Dec 2007
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      The first of Nobel Prize winner 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" (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 Handke's 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" (Boston Sunday Globe).

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      First Edition Dec 2007 Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0374531064
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      Dec 2007 Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 1466806818
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      Dec 2007 Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN B006MH05IM
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