The Left-Handed Woman

The Left-Handed Woman
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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages : 74
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ISBN-10 : 9781466806962
ISBN-13 : 1466806966
Rating : 4/5 (966 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Left-Handed Woman by : Peter Handke

Download or read book The Left-Handed Woman written by Peter Handke and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 1978-06-01 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young woman faces loneliness and alienation on a journey to find her own life outside of being a wife and mother in Nobel Prize-winning author Peter Handke’s The Left-Handed Woman. One evening, when Marianne and her husband, Bruno, are dining out together to celebrate his return from a business trip, Marianne listens to him speak and realizes suddenly yet finally that Bruno will leave her. Whether at that moment, or in years to come, she will be deserted. And instinctively Marianne knows she must fend for herself and her young son now, before that time comes. She sends Bruno away and settles down to a life alone, at first experiencing moments of panic, restlessly wandering in rooms grown stifling. The stillness of the house wears her down, and she starts taking long walks, or visiting with her close friend, Franziska. Gradually, what began as a selfish escape from the prospects of the future becomes in fact liberation. The environment she'd always hated--a no man's land of identical houses, with all curtains drawn--recedes; her relationships with those dear to her become less threatening, less necessary; and Marianne finds a new pattern for her life and the strength to go on alone. Handke adapted the novel himself into a film of the same name in 1978.


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