The Loser: A Novel History_Gift_Guide sublimely humorous and honest personal

sublimely humorous and honest personal testimony to the "Fear of Diversity in America

Published in over 6

written in 1844 but published nearly a century later

Foremost among them is Michael Gillespie

The Loser: A Novel History_Gift_Guide sublimely humorous and honest personalThomas Bernhard was one of the most original writers of the twentieth century. His formal innovation ranks with Beckett and Kafka, his outrageously cantankerous voice recalls Dostoevsky, but his gift for lacerating, lyrical, provocative prose is incomparably his own. One of Bernhard's most acclaimed novels, The Loser centers on a fictional relationship between piano virtuoso Glenn Gould and two of his fellow students who feel compelled to renounce