{"product_id":"slow-homecoming-isbn-9781590173077","title":"Slow Homecoming","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBy Nobel Prize Winner Peter Handke\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProvocative, romantic, and restlessly exploratory, Peter Handke is one of the great  writers of our time. \u003ci\u003eSlow Homecoming\u003c\/i\u003e, originally published in the late 1970s, is  central to his achievement and to the powerful influence he has exercised on other  writers, chief among them W.G. Sebald. A novel of self-questioning and self-discovery,  \u003ci\u003eSlow Homecoming\u003c\/i\u003e is a singular odyssey, an escape from the distractions of the modern  world and the unhappy consciousness, a voyage that is fraught and fearful but ultimately  restorative, ending on an unexpected note of joy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book begins in America. Writing  with the jarring intensity of his early work, Handke introduces Valentin Sorger,  a troubled geologist who has gone to Alaska to lose himself in his work, but now  feels drawn back home: on his way to Europe he moves in ominous disorientation through  the great cities of America. The second part of the book, “The Lesson of Mont Sainte-Victoire,”  identifies Sorger as a projection of the author, who now writes directly about his  own struggle to reconstitute himself and his art by undertaking a pilgrimage to the  great mountain that Cézanne painted again and again. Finally, “Child Story” is a  beautifully observed, deeply moving account of a new father—not so much Sorger or  the author as a kind of Everyman—and his love for his growing daughter.\u003c\/p\u003e“Moving and powerful...with the freshness that only an extraordinary writer can impart.” –\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e______________________________________________\u003cbr\u003ePRAISE FOR HANDKE \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“One of the most original and provocative of contemporary writers.” –Lawrence Graver, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Peter Handke…perhaps the most interesting young writer in German today.” –Frank Kermode\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"There is no denying Handke's willful intensity and knife-like clarity of emotion. He writes from an area beyond psychology, where feelings acquire the adamancy of randomly encountered, geologically analyzed pebblesÉThe best writer, altogether, in his language.\" –John Updike, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"His experimental poetry and anarchic, anti-authoritarian work win him a following among Germany's left-wing `1968ers'. Handke aims to strip away unnecessary words and challenge linguistic conventions, developing a spare, robust prose style.\" –\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"IMAGINE a cross between Holden Caulfield and Bertolt Brecht, and you'll have a sense of the Austrian novelist, playwright and screenwriter Peter Handke, whose alienation from the phony and harmful adult world is as pure as his esthetic purity is purposefully alienating...As it happened, Handke ended up writing social criticism with a vengeance...though to some degree time-bound tales of angst, have a pained, mysterious beauty. Their alluring tension lies in the little war they prosecute between eloquence of expression and rage at the loss of meaning.\" –\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Peter Handke made his reputation as an important writer with a fierce, icy set of plays and novels: \u003ci\u003eOffending the Audience\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKaspar\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Ride Across Lake Constance\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eShort Letter, Long Farewell\u003c\/i\u003e. Oblique yet startlingly immediate, these works embodied in fresh fictional and dramatic forms concerns that seemed particularly postmodern, notably an obsession (indeed, a disgust) with the way language itself defines and constricts human possibilities.\" –\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The David Byrne of fiction: a writer with a resonant, powerfully direct voice who could invoke the particular Sartrean nausea of postmodern existence in the simplest events.” –\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Handke is a securely established star of the German-speaking literary world, ‘the darling of the West German critics,’ and a ‘key figure of his generation.’” –\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“One of the most original and provocative of contemporary writers.” –\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Handke was and is, one of the most eminent narrative and dramatic writers of postwar Europe.” –\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Peter Handke must be acknowledged as one of the major voices in contemporary fiction.” –\u003ci\u003ePartisan Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“One awaits with pleasure whatever Peter Handke turns to next…Since the 1960s, he has been a popularly acclaimed novelist, playwright and poet and a long-standing critical success. He now creates a more rarefied, demanding art coupled with a lucid yet mythic affirmation of life.” –\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In power and vision and range, Peter Handke is the most important new writer on the international scene since Beckett.” –Stanley Kaufmann, \u003ci\u003eSaturday Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“His prose is reminiscent of the writings of Henry James…a passion for understanding, for grasping the tortured complexities of contemporary life.” –\u003ci\u003eThe Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Peter Handke achieved the kind of succes de scandale every ambitious young writer dreams of... and Mr. Handke became the enfant terrible of the European avant-garde...But Mr. Handke has aged well, and now, as the prolific author of plays, novels, essays, stories and poems, he is regarded as one of the most important writers in German.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Handke\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Griffen, Austria, in 1942. He came to early prominence in  the 1960s for such experimental plays as \u003ci\u003eKaspar\u003c\/i\u003e and rapidly established himself asone  of the most respected German-language writers of his generation, producing fiction,  translations, memoirs, screenplays, and essays. Among his best-known novels are \u003ci\u003eThe  Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRepetition\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMy Year in the No-Man’s Bay\u003c\/i\u003e.  He has directed adaptions of his novels \u003ci\u003eThe Left-Handed Woman\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAbsence\u003c\/i\u003e and collaborated  with filmmaker Wim Wenders on four films, including \u003ci\u003eWings of Desire\u003c\/i\u003e. In addition  to \u003ci\u003eSlow Homecoming\u003c\/i\u003e, NYRB Classics has also published Handke’s novel \u003ci\u003eShort Letter,  Long Farewell\u003c\/i\u003e.  Peter Handke won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2019.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBenjamin Kunke\u003c\/b\u003el is the author  of the novel \u003ci\u003eIndecision\u003c\/i\u003e and a founding editor of \u003ci\u003en+1\u003c\/i\u003e magazine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRalph Manheim\u003c\/b\u003e (1907–1992)  translated Günter Grass, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Hermann Hesse, and Martin Heidegger,  along with many other German and French authors.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304470892773,"sku":"NP9781590173077","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781590173077.jpg?v=1767736779","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/slow-homecoming-isbn-9781590173077","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}