Gathering Evidence & My Prizes: A Memoir (Vintage

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Gathering Evidence & My Prizes: A Memoir (Vintage International)

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 centuryâ€™s most gifted writers.
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Born in 1931, the illegitimate child of an abandoned mother, Thomas Bernhard was brought up by an eccentric grandmother and an adored grandfather in right-wing, Catholic Austria. He ran away from home at age fifteen. Three years later, he contracted pneumonia and was placed in a hospital ward for the old and terminally ill, where he observed first-handâ€”and with unflinching acuityâ€”the cruel nature of protracted suffering and death. From the age of twenty-one, everything he wrote was shaped by the urgency of a dying manâ€™s testamentâ€”and where this account of his life ends, his art begins.
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Included in this edition is My Prizes, a collection of Bernhardâ€™s viciously funny and revelatory essays on his later literary life. Here is a portrait of the artist as a prize-winner: laconic, sardonic, shaking his head with biting amusement at the world and at himself.
Country USA
Brand Vintage
Manufacturer Vintage
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781400077625
Color Grey
ReleaseDate 2011-11-29
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781400077625

Country	USA
Brand	Vintage
Manufacturer	Vintage
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9781400077625
Color	Grey
ReleaseDate	2011-11-29
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781400077625

Gathering Evidence & My Prizes: A Memoir (Vintage International)

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