| The Piano Teacher Contributor(s): Jelinek, Elfriede (Author), Neugroschel, Joachim (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0802144616 ISBN-13: 9780802144614 Publisher: Grove Press OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2009 Annotation: The Piano Teacher Elfriede Jelinek Deep passion, thwarted sexuality and love-hate for a mother dominate the life of Erika Kohut, a piano teacher at the Vienna Conservatory. Into this emotional pressure-cooker bounds Walter Klemmer, music student and ladies' man. Jelinek's masterpiece, The Piano Teacher was for Publishers' Weekly "Brilliant and uncompromising." |
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| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Psychological |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.82" H x 5.56" W x 8.22" (0.59 lbs) 288 pages |
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| Publisher Description: The most popular work from provocative Austrian Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek, The Piano Teacher is a searing portrait of a woman bound between a repressive society and her darkest desires. Erika Kohut is a piano teacher at the prestigious and formal Vienna Conservatory, who still lives with her domineering and possessive mother. Her life appears boring, but Erika, a quiet thirty-eight-year-old, secretly visits Turkish peep shows at night and watched sadomasochistic films. Meanwhile, a handsome, self-absorbed, seventeen-year-old student has become enamored with Erika and sets out to seduce her. She resists him at first--but then the dark passions roiling under the piano teacher's subdued exterior explode in a release of perversity, violence, and degradation. |