THE SAFETY NET,
by Heinrich Boll (Winner Nobel Prize for Literature, 1972)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, with usual stamps, stickers, barcode, etc. VERY GOOD book in VERY
- Seller
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McCrae, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
Secker & Warburg, publishers, London 1982 hardcover, 5½" x 8¾", with dust jacket. Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, with usual stamps, stickers, barcode, etc. VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD price-clipped dust jacket Translated from the German by Leila Vennewitz. 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?
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.
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Details
- Seller
- Pegasus Book Orphanage
(AU)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 35120
- Title
- THE SAFETY NET,
- Author
- Heinrich Boll (Winner Nobel Prize for Literature, 1972)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover, 5½" x 8¾", with dust jacket.
- Book Condition
- Used - Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, with usual stamps, stickers, barcode, etc. VERY GOOD book in VERY
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Secker & Warburg, publishers, London
- Date Published
- 1982
- Pages
- 314 pages
- Keywords
- Fiction Novel Suspence Heinreich Boll The Safety Net Nobel Prize Winner Classic Fiction
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Pegasus Book Orphanage
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McCrae, Victoria
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On-line bookstore operating for 20+ years.
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