{"product_id":"slow-homecoming-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 C zanne 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-16596811\"\u003ePeter Handke\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/31\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.96h x 5.16w x 0.67d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781590173077\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1590173074\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC019000\"\u003eLiterary\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC025000\"\u003ePsychological\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\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":"New York Review of Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44573750296813,"sku":"9781590173077","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_8d8a8d40-e287-4834-ab95-fbbaa2e92cc3.jpg?v=1701977897","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/slow-homecoming-9781590173077","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}