{"product_id":"9781590173077","title":"Slow Homecoming","description":"\u003cp\u003eProvocative, romantic, and restlessly exploratory, Peter Handke is one of the great writers of our time. \u003ci\u003eSlow Homecoming\u003c\/i\u003e, originally published in the late 1970s, is central to his achievement and to the powerful influence he has exercised on other writers, chief among them W.G. Sebald. A novel of self-questioning and self-discovery, \u003ci\u003eSlow Homecoming\u003c\/i\u003e is a singular odyssey, an escape from the distractions of the modern world and the unhappy consciousness, a voyage that is fraught and fearful but ultimately restorative, ending on an unexpected note of joy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book begins in America. Writing with the jarring intensity of his early work, Handke introduces Valentin Sorger, a troubled geologist who has gone to Alaska to lose himself in his work, but now feels drawn back home: on his way to Europe he moves in ominous disorientation through the great cities of America. The second part of the book, “The Lesson of Mont Sainte-Victoire,” identifies Sorger as a projection of the author, who now writes directly about his own struggle to reconstitute himself and his art by undertaking a pilgrimage to the great mountain that Cézanne painted again and again. Finally, “Child Story” is a beautifully observed, deeply moving account of a new father—not so much Sorger or the author as a kind of Everyman—and his love for his growing daughter.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47035273642224,"sku":"9781590173077","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781590173077_p0.jpg?v=1763809595","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781590173077","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}