{"product_id":"the-goalies-anxiety-at-the-penalty-kick-9780374531065","title":"The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first of Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke's novels to be published in English, \u003ci\u003eThe Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick \u003c\/i\u003eis a true modern classic that \"portrays the...breakdown of a murderer in ways that recall Camus's \u003ci\u003eThe Stranger\u003c\/i\u003e\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times). \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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\" (\u003ci\u003eBoston Sunday Globe). \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Handke\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Griffen, Austria, in 1942. A novelist, playwright, and translator, he is the author of such acclaimed works as \u003ci\u003eThe Moravian Night\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Sorrow Beyond Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eRepetition\u003c\/i\u003e. The recipient of multiple literary awards, including the Franz Kafka Prize and the International Ibsen Award, Handke is also a filmmaker. He wrote and directed adaptations of his novels \u003ci\u003eThe Left-Handed Woman\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAbsence\u003c\/i\u003e, and co-wrote the screenplays for Wim Wenders' \u003ci\u003eWrong Movie \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eWings of Desire.\u003c\/i\u003e He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2019.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50674806292754,"sku":"9780374531065","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f5e8dc44-2a3f-4535-8264-46e53367986c.jpg?v=1733865995","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-goalies-anxiety-at-the-penalty-kick-9780374531065","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}