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Grass, Gunter (Translated by Michael Henry Heim).
PEELING THE ONION.
New York City, NY:
Harcourt, Inc. ,
2007.
Hardcover.
First Edition/First Printing.
425 pages.
As New/As New.
The author's memoir. One of the most important literary events of the year 2007. The first appearance of the title in English. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. "The German Edition of this memoir caused a stir with its revelations about the author's youthful service in the Waffen SS combat unit during the last months of the Second World War. According to his deliberately disjointed, impressionistic account of the war, Grass never fired a shot and spent his time fleeing both the Russians and German military police hunting for deserters. But he dutifully shoulders a joint responsibility for the Nazi war crimes, a guilt and a shame that gnaw, gnaw, and gnaw ceaselessly. Along the way, Grass notes people and events that he reworked into fictional characters and plots, and does quirky profiles of influential figures as well as his penis and typewriter" (Publishers Weekly). In this novelistic memoir, there is no straightforward narrative line and more scandalously, the satisfaction of the author's perpetual hunger for food, sex, and art is recounted with a visceral power and tenderness that readers of Gunter Grass' indispensable fiction will immediately recognize: Life as survival, survival as the highest virtue. Grass' evocation of a lifetime of memories is spellbinding literature. A "must-have" title for Gunter Grass collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black fountain pen on the title page by Gunter Grass. Grass made a very rare appearance in New York City only to launch the book. This title is already in multiple subsequent printings and highly collectible. This is one of very few signed copies of the First English-language Edition still available online and has no flaws, a pristine beauty. A very scarce signed copy thus. Gunter Grass' "The Tin Drum" is widely regarded to be the greatest German postwar novel of the 20th century. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1999. One of the greatest living writers. A flawless collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER GUNTER GRASS TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0151014779. $200.00 |
