Peter Handke,Drinka GojkoviÄ‡,Michael E. Roloff

  ,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