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The shoe tester of Frankfurt : a novel / by Wilhelm Genazino ; translated from the German by Philip Boehm.
- Title
- The shoe tester of Frankfurt : a novel / by Wilhelm Genazino ; translated from the German by Philip Boehm.
- Author
- Genazino, Wilhelm, 1943-2018
- Publication
- New York : New Directions, 2006.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PT2667.E54 R4413 2006 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Boehm, Philip
- Description
- 132 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- "This brief and poignant novel by Wilhelm Genazino explores existential questions as its 46-year-old narrator reflects on broken relationships and other failures and struggles to come to terms with life." "Employed by a high-end shoe manufacturer to test new products, the narrator spends his days wandering through his native city, encountering faces from his past (many of them female) and reflecting on the mystery of life. In the grand tradition of literary flaneurs, he assembles his surroundings, from the significant to the mundane, into a sort of mental collage that is at once self-portrait and cityscape."--Jacket.
- Uniform Title
- Regenschirm für diesen Tag. English
- Alternative Title
- Regenschirm für diesen Tag.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Fiction
- Translations
- Romans.
- Note
- "Originally published by Carl Hanser Verlag as Ein regenschirm für diesen Tag in 2001"--Title page verso.
- "A New Directions paperbook original NDP1037"--Page 4 of cover.
- ISBN
- 0811215830
- 9780811215831
- LCCN
- 2006009105
- 9780811215831
- OCLC
- 65064683
- SCSB-11593504
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library