Group Portrait With Lady
by Boll,Heinrich
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Acceptable
- ISBN 10
- 0070064237
- ISBN 13
- 9780070064232
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Synopsis
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. Translator LEILA VENNEWITZ was a distinguished translator of many other German authors, most notably Hermann Hesse, Uwe Timm, Alexander Kluge, Alfred Andresch among others.
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- Colorado's Used Bookstore, Inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 437052
- Title
- Group Portrait With Lady
- Author
- Boll,Heinrich
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0070064237
- ISBN 13
- 9780070064232
- Publisher
- Mcgraw-hill
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- June 1973
- Pages
- 405
- Keywords
- Boll,Heinrich Group Portrait with Lady
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