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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Grove Pr
Publication date November 1, 1988
Binding Hardcover
Book category Adult Fiction
ISBN-13 9781555840525
ISBN-10 1555840523
Availability§ Out of Print
Original list price $18.95
§As reported by publisher
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Summary
Erika Kohut, a piano teacher who has lived with her mother all of her life, develops an obsession for Walter Klemmer, her young student
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Erika Kohut teaches piano at the Vienna Conservatory by day. By night she trawls the porn shows of Vienna. Until one day, into Erika's secretive, repressed life bounds music student and ladies man, Walter Klemmer. With Walter as her student - and teacher - Erika spirals out of control, consumed by the ecstacy of self-destruction.

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Hardcover
Book cover for 9780802118066
 
With Joachim Neugroschel (other contributor) | from Grove Pr (December 30, 2004)
9780802118066 | details & prices | 280 pages | 5.75 × 8.25 × 1.00 in. | 0.98 lbs | List price $19.95
About: The Piano Teacher, the most famous novel of Elfriede Jelinek, who was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature, is a shocking, searing, aching portrait of a woman bound between a repressive society and her darkest desires.
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from Grove Pr (November 1, 1988)
9781555840525 | details & prices | List price $18.95
About: Erika Kohut, a piano teacher who has lived with her mother all of her life, develops an obsession for Walter Klemmer, her young student
Paperback
Book cover for 9781852421571 Book cover for 9781852427504
 
With Joachim Neugroschel | from Serpents Tail (March 1, 2002)
9781852427504 | details & prices | 5.00 × 7.50 × 0.75 in. | 0.45 lbs | List price $14.99
About: Erika Kohut, a piano teacher who has lived with her mother all of her life, develops an obsession for Walter Klemmer, her young student.
With Joachim Neugroschel | from Serpents Tail (November 1, 1999)
9781852427252 | details & prices | 280 pages | 5.25 × 8.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.50 lbs | List price $12.00
Reprint edition from Serpents Tail (February 1, 1992)
9781852421571 | details & prices | 5.50 × 8.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.75 lbs | List price $15.99
About: This is the first publication in English by Elfriede Jelinek, who in 1986 won the Heinrich Boll Prize for her distinguished contribution to German literature.

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