| Concrete Contributor(s): Bernhard, Thomas (Author) |
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ISBN: 1400077575 ISBN-13: 9781400077571 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Satire - Fiction | Psychological |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2011380188 |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.48" H x 5.26" W x 8.08" (0.40 lbs) 160 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Instead of the book he's meant to write, Rudolph, a Viennese musicologist, produces this dark and grotesquely funny account of small woes writ large, of profound horrors detailed and rehearsed to the point of distraction. We learn of Rudolph's sister, whose help he invites, then reviles as malevolent meddling; his 'really marvelous' house, which he hates; the suspicious illness he carefully nurses; his ten-year-long attempt to write the perfect opening sentence; and, finally, his escape to the island of Majorca, which turns out to be the site of someone else's very real horror story. A brilliant and haunting tale of procrastination, failure, and despair, Concrete is a perfect example of why Thomas Bernhard is remembered as "one of the masters of contemporary European fiction" (George Steiner). |