{"product_id":"short-letter-long-farewell-paperback","title":"Short Letter, Long Farewell - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePeter Handke\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eGreil Marcus\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by), \u003cb\u003eRalph Manheim\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBy Nobel Prize Winner Peter Handke\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eShort Letter, Long Farewell\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eShort Letter, Long Farewell\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Handk\u003c\/b\u003ee 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 as one 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\u003eShort Letter, Long Farewell\u003c\/i\u003e, NYRB Classics has also published Handke's novel \u003ci\u003eSlow Homecoming\u003c\/i\u003e. Handke won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2019.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGreil Marcus\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy and the American Voice\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLipstick Traces\u003c\/i\u003e, and other books; with Werner Sollors he is the editor of \u003ci\u003eA New Literary History of America\u003c\/i\u003e, forthcoming in 2009. In recent years he has taught at the University of California at Berkeley, Princeton University, the New School University, and the University of Minnesota. He was born in San Francisco and lives in Berkeley.\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\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.51 x 7.96 x 5.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 31, 2009\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771233042720,"sku":"9781590173060","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/6d78e538d37a32481cee3c46ea272017.webp?v=1780383598","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/short-letter-long-farewell-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}