Group Portrait With Lady
Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780380486373 (0380486377)
Publish date: January 1st 1974
Publisher: Avon
Pages no: 432
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
20th Century,
War,
German Literature,
Nobel Prize,
Germany,
Fiction
When Heinrich Böll won the Nobel Prize, this novel was singled out as his crowning achievement, even though writers win for a body of work rather than an individual book. The novel is a marvelous panoramic look at German society during and after WWII, conducted as a kind of investigation into the li...
What a marvelous, marvelous book...! If you've never read Böll at the height of his powers, you've a treat in store. Humane, funny, rich, poignant, full of irony and love and compassion.... A great book, not to put too fine a point on it.
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