The first of Peter Handkes novels to be published in English, The Goalies Anxiety at the Penalty Kick is a true modern classic that portrays the...breakdown of a murderer in ways that recall Camuss The Stranger (Richard Locke, The New York Times). 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 his use of direct, sometimes fractured prose that conveys at its best a seamless blend of lyricism and horror seen in the runes of a disintegrating world (Bill Marx, Boston Sunday Globe). About the Author:Peter Handke was born in Griffen, Austria, in 1942. His most recent novel is Crossing the Sierra de Gredos (FSG, 2007).