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      Slow Homecoming

      by Peter Handke
      Published
      Jun 1985
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      In this haunting suite of three fictions, Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke cements his reputation as one of the most talented writers of the Twentieth Century

      In "The Long Way Around", a European scientist in Alaska finds himself in isolated "places and spaces" that are disturbed when he relocates to California, a disruption that ultimately drives him back home.

      "The Lesson of Mont Sainte-Victoire" follows an autobiographical narrator to Provence, to the mountain that fascinated Cezanne, on a quest to restore his sense of self and revitalize his craft.

      Finally, "Child Story" reveals a crack in one man's feelings of isolation through a father's reflections on his developing love for his daughter in the first ten years of her life.

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      Mar 2009 NYRB Classics ISBN13 9781590173077 ISBN10 1590173074
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      Jun 1988 Collier Books ISBN13 9780020515302 ISBN10 0020515308
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      First Edition Jun 1985 Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN13 9780374266356 ISBN10 0374266352
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      Jun 1985 Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN13 9781466807280 ISBN10 1466807288
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      Jun 1985 Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN10 B0080K3OVY
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