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THE SAFETY NET
de Heinrich Boll
- Usado
- Aceptable
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Aceptable/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0394514041
- ISBN 13
- 9780394514048
- Librería
-
Mansonville, Quebec, Canada
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EUR 32.58EUR 26.06
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. THE SAFETY NET- Heinrich Boll- Trnsl. from German by Leila Vennewitz- Alfred A. Knopf- ISBN 0-394-51404-1-1982-1st-1st-US.- Hardcover:- 8vo-First American Trade Edition. . 314 pp.all clean, red remainder dot on lower page edges- Black hardboards, black cloth spine, gilt lettering. This is a FINE/Fine dj. Novel is a translation from German, written by Nobel Laureate Heinrich Boll. - "The subject is terrorrism, and the terrorrized. It is a society in the grip of panic and the enveloping "safety net" of oppressive police protection that is tightening around them. At the centre of this panoramic novel is an ageing newspaper proprietor who becomes a target for the new breed of terrorist. This portrait of a disintegrating society, framed in Boll's mastery of narrative technique, probes painfully deep, raises questions we would prefer not to ask - but, in the modern world, cannot avoid. Boll's central question is simple: What price are we prepared for freedom? ..."- Fiction-thriller-terrorism(151) . 1st Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Sinopsis
In 1972, Heinrich Böll became the first German to win the Nobel Prize for literature since Thomas Mann in 1929. Born in Cologne, in 1917, Böll was reared in a liberal Catholic, pacifist family. Drafted into the Wehrmacht, he served on the Russian and French fronts and was wounded four times before he found himself in an American prison camp. After the war he enrolled at the University of Cologne, but dropped out to write about his shattering experiences as a soldier. His first novel, The Train Was on Time , was published in 1949, and he went on to become one of the most prolific and important of post-war German writers. His best-known novels include Billiards at Half-Past Nine (1959), The Clown (1963), Group Portrait with Lady (1971), and The Safety Net (1979). In 1981 he published a memoir, What’s to Become of the Boy? or: Something to Do with Books . Böll served for several years as the president of International P.E.N. and was a leading defender of the intellectual freedom of writers throughout the world. He died in June 1985.
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Detalles
- Librería
- jakoll
(CA)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 151
- Título
- THE SAFETY NET
- Autor
- Heinrich Boll
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Aceptable
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Fine
- Edición
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394514041
- ISBN 13
- 9780394514048
- Editorial
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1982
- Palabras clave
- Fiction-thriller-terrorism
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