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The Safety Net
by Boll, Heinrich
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Very Good /No Jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0140064680
- ISBN 13
- 9780140064681
- Seller
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Douglas, Wyoming, United States
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About This Item
New York: Penguin Books. book is in very good condition. no markings. little shelf wear. tight and square binding. light foxing throughout. . Very Good. Soft cover. First mcGraw Hill paperback Edition. 1983.
Synopsis
In 1972, Heinrich Böll became the first German to win the Nobel Prize for literature since Thomas Mann in 1929. Born in Cologne, in 1917, Böll was reared in a liberal Catholic, pacifist family. Drafted into the Wehrmacht, he served on the Russian and French fronts and was wounded four times before he found himself in an American prison camp. After the war he enrolled at the University of Cologne, but dropped out to write about his shattering experiences as a soldier. His first novel, The Train Was on Time , was published in 1949, and he went on to become one of the most prolific and important of post-war German writers. His best-known novels include Billiards at Half-Past Nine (1959), The Clown (1963), Group Portrait with Lady (1971), and The Safety Net (1979). In 1981 he published a memoir, What’s to Become of the Boy? or: Something to Do with Books . Böll served for several years as the president of International P.E.N. and was a leading defender of the intellectual freedom of writers throughout the world. He died in June 1985.
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- Bookseller
- Jen's Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 017208
- Title
- The Safety Net
- Author
- Boll, Heinrich
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First mcGraw Hill paperback Edition
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0140064680
- ISBN 13
- 9780140064681
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1983
- Keywords
- 18 stories, Tomorrow and Yesterday
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾.
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