Gathering Evidence
$33.57
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
15 March 2003
Summary
Written with a dark pain and drama that recalls the novels of Dickens, Gathering Evidence is a powerful and compelling memoir of youth by one of the twentieth century’s most gifted writers.
Born in 1931, the illegitimate child of an abandoned mother, Thomas Bernhard was brought up by an eccentric grandmother and adored grandfather. Tormented as a young student in a right-wing, catholic Austria, Bernhard ran away from home aged fifteen. At eighteen he contracted pneumonia. Placed in a …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099442530 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099442531 |
| Author: | Thomas Bernhard |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 15 March 2003 |
| Weight: | 258g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 132mm x 23mm |
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A writer of great originality and fascination
A writer of great originality and fascination * New York Review of Books *
Breathless, relentlessly compulsive… A remarkable literary contribution * New York Times Book Review *
About The Author
Thomas Bernhard
Thomas Bernhard was born in Holland in 1931 but grew up in Austria. His interest in music and theatre led him to study at the Akademie Mozarteum in Salzburg. He wrote a quantity of poetry, several novels, short stories and plays and three volumes of autobiography. He died in 1989.
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