Walser, Breakers.
Walser, Breakers.
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Walser, Martin. Breakers. [Signed]. Translated from the German by Leila Vennewitz. First American Edition. New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1987. 14.5 x 21.5cm. 305 pages. Original quarter-clothbound hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition other than very minor spotting to cloth edges. Signed by the author on title page. Leaving Germany for a one-semester professorship in German at a San Francisco college brings welcome changes for Helmut Halm. California throbs with life, from the variety of fruit in the market to the variety of women students sprawled on the campus lawns. His German conversation seminar allows him to discuss his many American experiences and also supplies the lithe, tanned beauty with whom he becomes infatuated. Breakers twists the standard “Campus” plot into an amusing view of America from the German perspective. Walser stylishly weaves comedy and compassion, as in his earlier The Inner Man, but here the California setting will have American readers laughing in recognition of the ordinary rendered fresh with a tinge of absurdity. [From Library Journal]
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