Frost: A Novel

by THOMAS BERNHARD

2021-01-07 15:35:05

Thomas Bernhard combined a searing wit and an unwavering gaze into the human condition. His debut novel, Frost, marked the beginning of one of the century’s most provocative literary careers.Visceral, raw, singular, and unforgettable, Frost is ... Read more
Thomas Bernhard combined a searing wit and an unwavering gaze into the human condition. His debut novel, Frost, marked the beginning of one of the century’s most provocative literary careers.

Visceral, raw, singular, and unforgettable, Frost is the story of a friendship between a young man beginning his medical career and a painter in his final days. The youth has accepted an unusual assignment, to travel to a miserable mining town in the middle of nowhere in order to clinically—and secretly—observe and report on his mentor’s reclusive brother, the painter Strauch. Carefully disguising himself as a law student with a love of Henry James, he befriends the aging artist and attempts to carry out his mission, only to find himself caught up in his subject’s apparent madness. Less

Book Details

File size7.99 X 5.13 X 0.73 in
Print pages352
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date January 8, 2008
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781400033515
Nicolaas Thomas Bernhard (9 Feb 1931 – 12 Feb 1989) was an Austrian novelist, playwright and poet. Bernhard's body of work has been called "the most significant literary achievement since World War ...

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