Author: Peter Handke Publisher: Pushkin Press ISBN: 1782270302 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 60
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"My mother has been dead for almost seven weeks: I had better go to work before the need to write about her, which I felt so strongly at her funeral, dies away and I fall back into the dull speechlessness with which I reacted to the nerves of her suicide." So begins Peter Handke's extraordinary confrontation with his mother's death. In a painful and courageous attempt to deal with the almost intolerable horror of her suicide, he sets out to piece together the facts of her life, as he perceives them. What emerges is a loving portrait of inconsolable grief, a woman whose lively spirit has been crushed not once but over and over again by the miseries of her place and time. Yet well into middle age, living in the Austrian village of her birth, she still remains haunted by her dreams.
Author: John Sandford Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136816100 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 1258
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With more than 1,100 entries written by an international group of over 150 contributors, the Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture brings together myriad strands of social, political and cultural life in the post-1945 German-speaking world. With a unique structure and format, an inclusive treatment of the concept of culture, and coverage of East, West and post-unification Germany, as well as Austria and Switzerland, the Encyclopedia of Contemporary German Culture is the first reference work of its kind. Containing longer overviews of up to 2,000 words, as well as shorter factual entries, cross-referencing to other relevant articles, useful further reading suggestions and extensive indexing, this highly useable volume provides the scholar, teacher, student or non-specialist with an astonishing breadth and depth of information.
Author: Marietta Chicorel Publisher: ISBN: Category : Mental health Languages : en Pages : 398
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Alphabetical listing with annotations of books published during the previous year. Reviews drawn from journals of the behavioral sciences, representing such fields as psychology, anthropology, education, and sociology. Entry gives bibliographical information, annotation, and journal citation of reviews. Author, editor, and subject indexes. 1976 ed., 1271 books annotated and cited with reviews.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: Category : Bibliography Languages : en Pages : 1594
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Excerpts from and citations to reviews of more than 8,000 books each year, drawn from coverage of 109 publications. Book Review Digest provides citations to and excerpts of reviews of current juvenile and adult fiction and nonfiction in the English language. Reviews of the following types of books are excluded: government publications, textbooks, and technical books in the sciences and law. Reviews of books on science for the general reader, however, are included. The reviews originate in a group of selected periodicals in the humanities, social sciences, and general science published in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. - Publisher.
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