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Pigeons on the grass
- Title
- Pigeons on the grass / Wolfgang Koeppen ; translated from the German by Michael Hofmann.
- Author
- Koeppen, Wolfgang, 1906-1996
- Publication
- New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2020.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 21-455 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- xix, 216 pages; 21 cm.
- Summary
- "Pigeons on the Grass is told over a single day in Munich in 1948. The first new cinemas and insurance offices are opening atop the ruins, Korea and Persia are keeping the world in panic, planes rumble in the sky (but no one looks up), newspaper headlines announce war over oil and atomic bomb tests. Odysseus Cotton, a black man, alights at the station and hires a porter; Emilia sells the last of her jewelry; Philipp gives himself up to despair; with their interracial love affair, Carla Behrend and Washington Price scandalize their neighbors-who still expect gifts of chocolate and coffee; a boy hustles to sell a stray dog; Mr. Edwin, a visiting poet, prepares for a reading; Frau Behrend disowns her daughter; Alexander stars as the Archduke in a new German Super-production; and Susanne seeks out a night to remember. In Michael Hofmann's words, "in their sum, they are the totality of existence." Koeppen spares no one and sees all in this penetrating and intense novel that surveys those who remain, and those who have just arrived, in a damaged society. As inventive as Joyce and as compulsively readable as Dickens, Pigeons on the Grass is a great lost classic"--
- Series Statement
- New Directions paperbook
- Uniform Title
- Tauben im Gras. English
- New Directions paperbook.
- Alternative Title
- Tauben im Gras.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- History.
- Humorous fiction.
- Note
- "A New Directions Paperbook Original."
- "Originally published in 1951 by Suhrkamp Verlag as Tauben im Gras"--Title page verso.
- "NDP 1488"--Spine.
- Language (note)
- In English. Translated from the German.
- Call Number
- JFD 21-455
- ISBN
- 9780811229180
- 0811229181
- 9780811229197 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2020021694
- 40030237126
- OCLC
- 1141505034
- Author
- Koeppen, Wolfgang, 1906-1996, author.
- Title
- Pigeons on the grass / Wolfgang Koeppen ; translated from the German by Michael Hofmann.
- Publisher
- New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2020.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- New Directions paperbookNew Directions paperbook.
- Language
- In English. Translated from the German.
- Chronological Term
- 1945-1955
- Added Author
- Hofmann, Michael, 1957 August 25- translator.New Directions Publishing, publisher.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40030237126
- Research Call Number
- JFD 21-455