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Extinction : a novel / Thomas Bernhard ; translated from the German by David McLintock.
LIBRA - Special PT2662.E7 A9513 1995b
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bernhard, Thomas.
- Standardized Title:
- Auslöschung. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Inheritance and succession--Fiction.
- Inheritance and succession.
- Austrians.
- Italy.
- Austrians--Italy--Fiction.
- Rome (Italy)--Fiction.
- Rome (Italy).
- Austria--Fiction.
- Austria.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Psychological fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 325 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- Uncorrected Proof.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1995.
- Summary:
- In Italy, an Austrian teacher devotes his energy to criticizing his family's noble heritage--its snobbery, hypocrisy, Catholicism, Nazism--but when on his parents' death he returns to take over the country estate, he does not practice what he preached. By the author of The Loser.
- Notes:
- Originally published: Frankfurt am Main : Suhrkamp Verlag, 1986.
- Book description on first leaf.
- OCLC:
- 904253071
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