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by: Elfriede Jelinek See Larger Image List Price: $14.99 Amazon.com's Price: $11.24 You Save: $3.75 (25%) Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 833.914 EAN: 9781852422370 ISBN: 1852422378 Label: Serpent's Tail Manufacturer: Serpent's Tail Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 192 Publication Date: July 01, 1995 Publisher: Serpent's Tail Sales Rank: 531606 Studio: Serpent's Tail Related Items: Lust (A Masks Title) Wonderful, Wonderful Times (Masks) The Piano Teacher Greed: A novel Fatelessness see more Editorial Review: Product Description: The setting is an idyllic Alpine village where a women's underwear factory nestles in the woods. Two factory workers, Brigitte and Paula, dream and talk about finding happiness, a comfortable home and a good man. They realise that their quest will be as hard as work at the factory. Brigitte subordinates her feelings and goes for Heinz, a young, plump, up-and-coming businessman. With Paula, feelings and dreams become confused. She gets pregnant by Erich, the forestry worker. He's handsome, so they marry. Brigitte gets it right. Paula gets it wrong. Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - Deep psichology of modern time To you out there, who perchance have never lived in smaller towns or villages of Europe (though I would dare to say that situation described here is pretty much the same everywhere), the world described in this novel of Elfriede Jelinek may feel awfull strange. Allmost impossible. We live and grow in "advanced" civilisation, we educate ourselves, attend to schools, feel free to question world around us and finaly, we refuse to be bound by that same world more than is necessary (or yet we perceive ... Read More Rating: - need to be austrian? I HAD to add this in reaction to the published review. It might be hard for Americans to admit that all the depicted hopelessness, sexism and pointlessness exists in relationships, not only in Austria. We WISH it wouldn't, but it does. And the fact, that we have such a hard time admitting it is all the more reason for this book exist and be read. I have come across the very same relationship patterns in the U.S., it's just the way this culture deals with it, that makes it hard for writers like ... Read More

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