# The Goalkeeper's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick

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- Book: [The Goalkeeper's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-handke/the-goalkeepers-anxiety-at-the-penalty-kick) ([The Goalkeeper's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-handke/the-goalkeepers-anxiety-at-the-penalty-kick.md))
- Authors: [Peter Handke](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-handke)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4199-361-4
- Published: 2020-08-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

The self-destruction of a soccer goalie turned construction worker who wanders aimlessly around a stifling Austrian border town after pursuing and then murdering, almost unthinkingly, a female movie cashier is mirrored by Handke's use of direct, sometimes fractured prose that conveys the dislocation and déjà vu of modern twentieth-century life.