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PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-101400077591

ISBN-139781400077595

eBay Product ID (ePID)79654486

Product Key Features

Book TitleWoodcutters

Number of Pages192 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2010

TopicSatire, Literary, Historical, Humorous / General

GenreFiction

AuthorThomas Bernhard

Book SeriesVintage International Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight6 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.2 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition22

Reviews"Superbly distinctive and provocative. . . . An unusually intense, engrossing literary experience." - The New York Times Book Review "Musical, dramatic and set in Vienna, Woodcutters resembles a Strauss operetta with a libretto by Beckett. . . . Bernhard is easily the most original and important writer in German since Gunter Grass." - Chicago Tribune "Bernhard's narrators are prodigious haters, and yet we love them; they are too brilliant for it to be otherwise." - Salon "No other book by Bernhard could possibly constitute a better introduction to his work as a whole. Apart from perfectly illustrating his shrewdness, disgruntlement and acute awareness, Woodcutters is very funny." - The Washington Post, "Superbly distinctive and provocative. . . . An unusually intense, engrossing literary experience." -- The New York Times Book Review "Musical, dramatic and set in Vienna, Woodcutters resembles a Strauss operetta with a libretto by Beckett. . . . Bernhard is easily the most original and important writer in German since Gunter Grass." -- Chicago Tribune "Bernhard's narrators are prodigious haters, and yet we love them; they are too brilliant for it to be otherwise." -- Salon "No other book by Bernhard could possibly constitute a better introduction to his work as a whole. Apart from perfectly illustrating his shrewdness, disgruntlement and acute awareness, Woodcutters is very funny." -- The Washington Post, "Superbly distinctive and provocative. . . . An unusually intense, engrossing literary experience." -- The New York Times Book Review "Musical, dramatic and set in Vienna, Woodcutters resembles a Strauss operetta with a libretto by Beckett. . . . Bernhard is easily the most original and important writer in German since Gunter Grass." -- Chicago Tribune "Bernhard's narrators are prodigious haters, and yet we love them; they are too brilliant for it to be otherwise." -- Salon "No other book by Bernhard could possibly constitute a better introduction to his work as a whole. Apart from perfectly illustrating his shrewdness, disgruntlement and acute awareness, Woodcutters is very funny." -- The Washington Post, "Superbly distinctive and provocative. . . . An unusually intense, engrossing literary experience." - The New York Times Book Review "Musical, dramatic and set in Vienna, Woodcutters resembles a Strauss operetta with a libretto by Beckett. . . . Bernhard is easily the most original and important writer in German since Gunter Grass." - Chicago Tribune "Bernhard's narrators are prodigious haters, and yet we love them; they are too brilliant for it to be otherwise." - Salon "No other book by Bernhard could possibly constitute a better introduction to his work as a whole. Apart from perfectly illustrating his shrewdness, disgruntlement and acute awareness, Woodcutters is very funny." - The Washington Post, "Superbly distinctive and provocative. . . . An unusually intense, engrossing literary experience." -The New York Times Book Review "Musical, dramatic and set in Vienna,Woodcuttersresembles a Strauss operetta with a libretto by Beckett. . . . Bernhard is easily the most original and important writer in German since Gunter Grass." -Chicago Tribune "Bernhard's narrators are prodigious haters, and yet we love them; they are too brilliant for it to be otherwise." -Salon "No other book by Bernhard could possibly constitute a better introduction to his work as a whole. Apart from perfectly illustrating his shrewdness, disgruntlement and acute awareness,Woodcuttersis very funny." -The Washington Post

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SynopsisFiercely observed, often hilarious, and "reminiscent of Ibsen and Strindberg" ( The New York Times Book Review ), this exquisitely controversial novel was initially banned in its author's homeland. A searing portrayal of Vienna's bourgeoisie, it begins with the arrival of an unnamed writer at an 'artistic dinner' hosted by a composer and his society wife--a couple he once admired and has come to loathe. The guest of honor, a distinguished actor from the Burgtheater, is late. As the other guests wait impatiently, they are seen through the critical eye of the writer, who narrates a silent but frenzied tirade against these former friends, most of whom have been brought together by Joana, a woman they buried earlier that day. Reflections on Joana's life and suicide are mixed with these denunciations until the famous actor arrives, bringing an explosive end to the evening that even the writer could not have seen coming.