{"product_id":"thomas-bernhard-extinction-2019-paperback","title":"Thomas Bernhard: Extinction [2019] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLRB BOOKSHOP'S AUTHOR OF THE MONTH \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWITH A NEW AFTERWORD BY GEOFF DYER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e'If you haven't read Bernhard, you will not know of the most radical advance in fiction since Joyce ... My advice: dive in.' Lucy Ellmann\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'I absolutely love Bernhard: he is one of the darkest and funniest writers ... A must read for everybody.' Karl Ove Knausgaard\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFranz-Josef Murau is the intellectual black sheep of a powerful Austrian land-owning family. He now lives in Rome in self-imposed exile, surrounded by a coterie of artistic and intellectual friends. On returning from his sister's wedding on the family estate of Wolfsegg, having resolved never to go home again, Murau receives a telegram informing him of the death of his parents and brother in a car crash. Not only must he now go back, he must do so as the master of Wolfsegg: and he must decide its fate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe summit of Thomas Bernhard's artistic genius - mesmerising, addictive, explosively tragicomic - \u003ci\u003eExtinction \u003c\/i\u003eis a landmark of post-war literature, newly illuminated by \u003cb\u003eGeoff Dyer's afterword.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bernhard, Thomas \u0026 Mclintock, David","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":47454086431059,"sku":"9780571349968","price":16.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/bernhard-thomas-mclintock-david-thomas-bernhard-extinction-2019-paperback-9780571349968-59090414305619.jpg?v=1727910497","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/thomas-bernhard-extinction-2019-paperback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}