Short Letter, Long Farewell-Fast Shipping

Description

By Nobel Prize Winner Peter Handke

Short Letter, Long Farewell is one the most inventive and exhilarating of the greatPeter Handke’s novels. Full of seedy noir atmospherics and boasting an air of generalizeddelirium, the book starts by introducing us to a nameless young German who has justarrived in America, where he hopes to get over the collapse of his marriage. No soonerhas 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 thelength of America—from Philadelphia to St. Louis to the Arizona desert, and fromPortland, 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 twistat the end. Above all, Short Letter, Long Farewell is a love letter to America, itslandscapes and popular culture, the invitation and the threat of its newness andwildness and emptiness, with the promise of a new life—or the corpse of an old one—lyingjust around the corner.