Cold Shoulder
by Markus Werner
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Moritz Wenk is an averagely unsuccessful painter, and Judith Wenk, a dental hygienist, are a close and harmonius couple. During a week in a very hot summer, in perhaps Zurich, he's found work cutting out and painting shop-window dummies for a costume rental firm. There he meets a small cast of extras: a befriended couple, Kurt and Silvia, who are having difficulties, Wenk's mother, a successful painter colleague of his (Rotzel), a little erotic confrontation with a trainee in the store, and show more another with an ex-model of his (Maya). It's his birthday, he gets to be 38. Cold Shoulder is a chamber novel told with Werner's characteristic charm and spleen that will delight current Werner fans and attract new ones as well. show lessTags
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Una piacevole sorpresa. Uno scrittore che non ha bisogno di fatti spettacolari né di intricate trame per tenere assieme un romanzo. Piacevole da leggere, ricco di spunti. Una buona scrittura.
Aug 12, 2009 (Edited)Italian
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- Canonical title
- Cold Shoulder
- Original title
- Die kalte Schulter
- Original publication date
- 1989
- People/Characters*
- Moritz Wank
- Important places
- Schweiz; Switzerland
- First words*
- Während Wank feststellte, wie lang und fremdartig seine Zehennägel waren, blähten manche Frauen im Freibad die Brüste.
- Last words*
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Nach einer Weile stand er auf, zögernd und trotzdem so, als wolle er andeuten, dass er begriffen habe.
- Original language
- German
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 833.914 — Literature & rhetoric German & related literatures German fiction 1900- 1900-1990 1945-1990
- LCC
- PT2685 .E6736 .K3513 — Language and Literature German, Dutch and Scandinavian literatures German literature Individual authors or works 1961-2000
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- English, German, Italian
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- Paper, Ebook
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