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The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick

The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick: A Novel | Peter Handke

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The first of Peter Handke's novels to be published in English, The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick is a true modern classic that "portrays the...breakdown of a murderer in ways that recall Camus's The Stranger" (Richard Locke, The New York Times). 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" (Bill Marx, Boston Sunday Globe).

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The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick: A Novel | Peter Handke

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What if you killed someone? What if no one knew the crime had been committed yet? With an axe hanging like a pendulum over his head (will it land, will it miss?), our narrator returns home after killing a one-night stand. How does one deal with this internal knowledge? What does it reveal about oneself? 244/1,001 #1001Books

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The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick: A Novel | Peter Handke

💔 well there‘s a Nobel laureate that won‘t get on my “to be read” list...

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The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick: A Novel | Peter Handke

Meh

so-so

An odd little book, not my kind of thing but I can see how someone might like it. A construction worker and former goalie commits a murder. This book is his internal narration as he leaves town and wonders if he will be caught. He questions everything he does and says—but the people around him don‘t seem to think he‘s behaving strangely. Unsettling. #1001books