Handke Peter - Short Letter Long Farewell - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: By Nobel Prize Winner Peter Handke Short Letter Long Farewell is one the most inventive and exhilarating of the great Peter Handke's novels. Full of seedy noir atmospherics and boasting an air of generalized delirium the book starts by introducing us to a nameless young German who has just arrived in America where he hopes to get over the collapse of his marriage. No sooner has he arrived however than he discovers that his ex - wife is pursuing him. He flees she follows and soon the couple is running circles around each other across the length of America from Philadelphia to St. Louis to the Arizona desert and from Portland Oregon to L. A. Is it love or vengeance that they want from each other? Everything's spectacularly unclear in a book that is travelogue suspense story domestic comedy and Western showdown with a totally unexpected Hollywood twist at the end. Above all Short Letter Long Farewell is a love letter to America its landscapes and popular culture the invitation and the threat of its newness and wildness and emptiness with the promise of a new life or the corpse of an old one lying just around the corner.
Title: Short Letter Long Farewell
Author(s): Handke Peter
Publisher: The New York Review Of Books Inc
Barcode: 9781590173060
Pages: 192 Pages
Publication Date: 3/31/2009
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction