The pigeon / by Patrick Süskind ; translated from the German by John E. Woods.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Süskind, Patrick.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Taube. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Recluses--Fiction.

Recluses.

Pigeons.

Pigeons--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

115 pages ; 19 cm

Edition:

First American edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1988.

Summary:

Jonathan Noel-already past fifty, with the last payment for his tiny attic room only months away, and his life's plan laid out ahead of him-opens his door one morning to find a pigeon in the landing. This atom-splitting disruption in the orderly existence of a most anxious creature of habit precipitates a series of crises that are as moving and dismaying as they are funny. Teetering precariously on the edge of madness, Jonathan careens headlong on a journey of the self that leads him-and us-from terrror to redemption, from darkness to light, to an emotional resolution that offers further proof of a virtuoso writer's extraordinary art.

Notes:

Translation of: Die Taube.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Other Format:

Online version: Süskind, Patrick. Taube. English. Pigeon.

ISBN:

0394563158 :

9780394563152

OCLC:

17479877