The Clown

Calder & Boyars Ltd, London, 1974. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Good Condition. Size: 8vo Octavo (standard book size). 247 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Moderately foxed throughout. Previous owner's signature in ink. Edges browned slightly. This book is available and ready to be shipped from our local warehouse. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight.. Heinrich Boll was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1972.The face of a clown is the face of innocence, and innocence goes to the wall in German society after the Second World War, when double-dealing and double standards became a way of life. Heinrich Boll's clown is a professional entertainer in his late twenties who has reached the end of his tether: an unhappy drunk abandoned by the woman he loves, too honest and disillusioned to compromise, he sits in his lonely furnished flat and calls for help or consolation of any kind. For this is a study in hypocrisy - emotional, sexual, religious and political - where the majority are smugly blinkered and the rest are caught in a trap they fail to understand, let alone escape. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Literature & Literary; Germany; ISBN: 0714501689. ISBN/EAN: 9780714501680. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 6299. . 9780714501680