The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
The first of Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke's novels to be published in English,The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kickis a true modern classic that "portrays the…breakdown of a murderer in ways that recall Camus'sThe 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).
| Book Title | The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick |
| Author | Peter Handke |
| Type | Used Book |
The first of Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke's novels to be published in English,The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kickis a true modern classic that "portrays the…breakdown of a murderer in ways that recall Camus'sThe 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).