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Slow Homecoming
Slow Homecoming
Author: Peter Handke
ISBN-13: 9780374266356
ISBN-10: 0374266352
Publication Date: 6/1/1985
Pages: 278
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Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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In "Slow Homecoming" Peter Handke, "the best writer, altogether, in his language" (John Updike, "The New Yorker"), presents a suite of three interrelated fictions, introducing Valentin Sorger, a geologist and a man "nowhere at home". Installed in an Alaskan village in "The Long Way Around", Sorger displays a child's fascination with the world of natural forms, until he feels compelled to return to his native Europe via America, gradually resurfacing into the "world of names". "The Lesson of Mont Sainte-Victoire" follows the author of Sorger's story as he explores the mountain in Provence so often painted by Cezanne. And "Child Story" brings the suite to a dramatic and eloquent close, as a father -- resembling Sorger and his creator -- and daughter struggle to find their places as members of a family, and as subjects of a breathtaking work of art.
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From the back cover:

In "Slow Homecoming" Peter Handke, "the best writer, altogether, in his language" (John Updike, "The New Yorker"), presents a suite of three interrelated fictions, introducing Valentin Sorger, a geologist and a man "nowhere at home". Installed in an Alaskan village in "The Long Way Around", Sorger displays a child's fascination with the world of natural forms, until he feels compelled to return to his native Europe via America, gradually resurfacing into the "world of names". "The Lesson of Mont Sainte-Victoire" follows the author of Sorger's story as he explores the mountain in Provence so often painted by Cezanne. And "Child Story" brings the suite to a dramatic and eloquent close, as a father -- resembling Sorger and his creator -- and daughter struggle to find their places as members of a family, and as subjects of a breathtaking work of art.