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Article: Manteca Marine in high spirits after release
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- July 29, 2007
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CROSSING THE SIERRA DE GREDOS
By Peter Handke
Translated from the German by Krishna Winston
Farrar Straus Giroux. 472 pp. $30Peter Handke's Crossing the
Sierra De Gredos, set in an unspecified time in the 21st century, is
a beautifully hallucinatory, eerily compelling novel. In it, Handke,
a leading figure of the Austrian avant-garde and a rumored contender
for the Nobel Prize, relates the story of an anonymous woman living
in an unnamed port city of northwestern Europe. She is a powerful
banker, equally admired and hated, the subject of countless
profiles, a strangely opaque celebrity, yet notorious enough to be
recognized, insulted and threatened in airports all over the globe.
Handke ...
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