{"product_id":"gathering-evidence-my-prizes","title":"Gathering Evidence\/My Prizes","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eGathering Evidence\/My Prizes\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eThomas Bernhard\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781400077625\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eVintage\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2011\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003e2\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eWritten with a dark pain and drama that recalls the novels of Dickens, \u003ci\u003eGathering Evidence\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful and compelling memoir of youth by one of the twentieth century's most gifted writers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBorn in 1931, the illegitimate child of an abandoned mother, Thomas Bernhard was brought up by an eccentric grandmother and an adored grandfather in right-wing, Catholic Austria. He ran away from home at age fifteen. Three years later, he contracted pneumonia and was placed in a hospital ward for the old and terminally ill, where he observed first-hand--and with unflinching acuity--the cruel nature of protracted suffering and death. From the age of twenty-one, everything he wrote was shaped by the urgency of a dying man's testament--and where this account of his life ends, his art begins. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIncluded in this edition is \u003ci\u003eMy Prizes\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of Bernhard's viciously funny and revelatory essays on his later literary life. Here is a portrait of the artist as a prize-winner: laconic, sardonic, shaking his head with biting amusement at the world and at himself.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Gathering Evidence\/My Prizes | Thomas Bernhard | Paperback | 9781400077625 | New | Memoir 1280345","offer_id":50550549905666,"sku":"1280345","price":30.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/51T7qgeqMRL.jpg?v=1790468884","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/gathering-evidence-my-prizes","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}