The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick

About this book

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).

Details

Format

Paperback

ISBN-13

9780374531065

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

December 10, 2007

Pages

144

Weight

6.4 oz

Subject

Fiction