The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick: A Novel (FSG Classics)

ISBN: 0374531064

Author: Handke, Peter

Condition: New

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 thebreakdown 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).