The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick Author:Peter Handke, Michael Roloff (Translator) 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. — The first of Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke's novels to be published in E... more »nglish.« less