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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Collier Books
Publication date
June 1, 1988
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Reprint
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780020515302
ISBN-10
0020515308
Availability§
Out of Print
Original list price
$8.95
§As reported by publisher
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Summaries and Reviews
Summary
A geologist in Alaska decides he must return home to Europe, a writer explores a mountain painted by Cezanne, and a man and his young daughter work out their own concept of family life
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Provocative, romantic, and restlessly exploratory, Peter Handke is one of the great writers of our time. Slow Homecoming, originally published in the late 1970s, is central to his achievement and to the powerful influence he has exercised on other writers, chief among them W.G. Sebald. A novel of self-questioning and self-discovery, Slow Homecoming is a singular odyssey, an escape from the distractions of the modern world and the unhappy consciousness, a voyage that is fraught and fearful but ultimately restorative, ending on an unexpected note of joy.
The book begins in America. Writing with the jarring intensity of his early work, Handke introduces Valentin Sorger, a troubled geologist who has gone to Alaska to lose himself in his work, but now feels drawn back home: on his way to Europe he moves in ominous disorientation through the great cities of America. The second part of the book, âThe Lesson of Mont Sainte-Victoire,â identifies Sorger as a projection of the author, who now writes directly about his own struggle to reconstitute himself and his art by undertaking a pilgrimage to the great mountain that Cézanne painted again and again. Finally, âChild Storyâ is a beautifully observed, deeply moving account of a new fatherânot so much Sorger or the author as a kind of Everymanâand his love for his growing daughter.
The book begins in America. Writing with the jarring intensity of his early work, Handke introduces Valentin Sorger, a troubled geologist who has gone to Alaska to lose himself in his work, but now feels drawn back home: on his way to Europe he moves in ominous disorientation through the great cities of America. The second part of the book, âThe Lesson of Mont Sainte-Victoire,â identifies Sorger as a projection of the author, who now writes directly about his own struggle to reconstitute himself and his art by undertaking a pilgrimage to the great mountain that Cézanne painted again and again. Finally, âChild Storyâ is a beautifully observed, deeply moving account of a new fatherânot so much Sorger or the author as a kind of Everymanâand his love for his growing daughter.
Editions
Hardcover
from Farrar Straus & Giroux (April 1, 1985)
9780374266356 | details & prices | 5.75 × 8.75 × 1.00 in. | 1.10 lbs | List price $16.95
About: A geologist in Alaska decides he must return home to Europe, a writer explores a mountain painted by Cezanne, and a man and his young daughter work out their own concept of family life
About: A geologist in Alaska decides he must return home to Europe, a writer explores a mountain painted by Cezanne, and a man and his young daughter work out their own concept of family life
Paperback
With Benjamin Kunkel (other contributor) |
from New York Review of Books (March 31, 2009)
9781590173077 | details & prices | 278 pages | 5.00 × 8.00 × 0.50 in. | 0.65 lbs | List price $15.95
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Reprint edition from Collier Books (June 1, 1988)
9780020515302 | details & prices | List price $8.95
About: A geologist in Alaska decides he must return home to Europe, a writer explores a mountain painted by Cezanne, and a man and his young daughter work out their own concept of family life
About: A geologist in Alaska decides he must return home to Europe, a writer explores a mountain painted by Cezanne, and a man and his young daughter work out their own concept of family life
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