Group Portrait With Lady
by Heinrich Boll
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG
- Seller
-
Mena, Arkansas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
VG/VG
Nobel Prize winner, Heinrich Boll's magnum opus, Group Portrait With Lady, pieces together German life around WWII.
Synopsis
In 1972, Heinrich Böll became the first German to win the Nobel Prize for literature since Thomas Mann in 1929. Born in Cologne, in 1917, Böll was reared in a liberal Catholic, pacifist family. Drafted into the Wehrmacht, he served on the Russian and French fronts and was wounded four times before he found himself in an American prison camp. After the war he enrolled at the University of Cologne, but dropped out to write about his shattering experiences as a soldier. His first novel, The Train Was on Time , was published in 1949, and he went on to become one of the most prolific and important of post-war German writers. His best-known novels include Billiards at Half-Past Nine (1959), The Clown (1963), Group Portrait with Lady (1971), and The Safety Net (1979). In 1981 he published a memoir, What’s to Become of the Boy? or: Something to Do with Books . Böll served for several years as the president of International P.E.N. and was a leading defender of the intellectual freedom of writers throughout the world. He died in June 1985. Translator LEILA VENNEWITZ was a distinguished translator of many other German authors, most notably Hermann Hesse, Uwe Timm, Alexander Kluge, Alfred Andresch among others.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Supercalifabulistic Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 285
- Title
- Group Portrait With Lady
- Author
- Heinrich Boll
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Publisher
- McGraw Hill
- Date Published
- 1973
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Germany, WWll, Internment Camps, Romance,Nobel Prize,
- Bookseller catalogs
- HIstorical Fiction; WWll;
Terms of Sale
Supercalifabulistic Books
9 day return guarantee, with full refund excluding original shipping costs for up to 9 days after delivery if an item arrives incorrectly described or damaged.
About the Seller
Supercalifabulistic Books
About Supercalifabulistic Books
All books are stored in climate control storage with a dehumidifier.