Name: The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
Rating: 4 (7 reviews)

Peter Handke

The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick

"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 his 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"."--Global Books in Print.

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Donald

The Austrian answer to Camus' 'The Stranger' – but unlike 'The Stranger', this is actually an interesting book.

Handke, as usual, is more interested in language and objects and thinking than character or plot, but there aren't monologues like in his other short novels.

The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick

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