Slow Homecoming (28 page)
Translated by Ralph Manheim
Farrar / Straus / Giroux
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New York
Kaspar and Other Plays
The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
Short Letter, Long Farewell
A Sorrow Beyond Dreams
The Ride Across Lake Constance and Other Plays
A Moment of True Feeling
The Left-Handed Woman
The Weight of the World
The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick
Short Letter, Long Farewell
A Sorrow Beyond Dreams
The Ride Across Lake Constance and Other Plays
A Moment of True Feeling
The Left-Handed Woman
The Weight of the World
Translation copyright © 1985 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc. Originally published in German in three volumes, under the titles Langsame Heimkehr, copyright © Suhrkamp Verlag 1979; Die Lehre der Sainte-Victoire, copyright © Suhrkamp Verlag 1980; and Kindergeschichte, copyright © Suhrkamp Verlag 1981
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A portion of this book originally appeared, in somewhat
different form, in The New Yorker
different form, in The New Yorker
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Designed by Cynthia Krupat
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eISBN 9781466807280
First eBook Edition : December 2011
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Library of Congress catalog card number: 84-28597
Published simultaneously in Canada by Collins Publishers, Toronto
Published simultaneously in Canada by Collins Publishers, Toronto
First edition, 1985
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