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  • Published: 15 January 2008
  • ISBN: 9781400033515
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $45.00

Frost

A Novel




Thomas Bernhard combined a searing wit and an unwavering gaze into the human condition. His debut novel, Frost, marked the beginning of one of the century’s most provocative literary careers.

Visceral, raw, singular, and unforgettable, Frost is the story of a friendship between a young man beginning his medical career and a painter in his final days. The youth has accepted an unusual assignment, to travel to a miserable mining town in the middle of nowhere in order to clinically—and secretly—observe and report on his mentor’s reclusive brother, the painter Strauch. Carefully disguising himself as a law student with a love of Henry James, he befriends the aging artist and attempts to carry out his mission, only to find himself caught up in his subject’s apparent madness.

  • Published: 15 January 2008
  • ISBN: 9781400033515
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $45.00

About the author

Thomas Bernhard

Thomas Bernhard was born in Holland in 1931 but grew up in Austria. His interest in music and theatre led him to study at the Akademie Mozarteum in Salzburg. He has written a quantity of poetry, several novels, short stories and plays and three volumes of autobiography. He died in 1989.

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