Michael Kruger, Author George Braziller $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8076-1297-2
Munich-based author and editor Kruger's first U.S.-published fiction, The End of the Novel , explored the exasperations of the writing life; his new novel probes the ordeal of a painter. The unnamed narrator is a German artist who is temporarily...
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Michael Kruger, Author, Michael Willson, Translator, Leslie Willson, Translator George Braziller $18.5 (203p) ISBN 978-0-8076-1363-4
The latest from elegant German stylist Kruger ( The End of the Novel ) is a bleakly comic memoir of a purloined life. Richard, the sour, diffident narrator, has built an acclaimed career as a travel writer and ethnologist on another man's work--a...
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Michael Kruger, Author, John Hargraves, Translator , trans. from the German by John Hargraves. Harcourt $23 (180p) ISBN 978-0-15-101268-8
A meditation on literary friendship, the latest from Krüger (The Cello Player
) opens out onto the mysteries and obfuscations endemic to art making. With the suicide of well-known novelist Rudolf, the nameless male narrator, a close friend of...
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Michael Kruger, Author, Andrew Shields, Translator , trans. from the German by Andrew Shields. Harcourt $26 (208p) ISBN 978-0-15-100591-8
A crotchety German composer's comfortable world is turned upside down by a young woman who may or may not be his daughter in Krüger's lively, intelligent novel. Though he'd like to be known for his serious compositions—several
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