Local Anaesthetic / Gunter Grass Translated by Ralph Manheim

By Günter Grass and Gunter Grass

Book Overview

Starusch, a 40-year-old teacher of German and history, undergoes protracted dental treatment in an office where TV is used to distract the patients. Under local anesthesia, the patient projects onto... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B00695AD3Y
• ISBN13: 9781127008872
• Release Date: January 1970
• Publisher: New York : Harcourt, Brace & World
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Survives the Test of Time

Thirty years after first reading this book, I still recall the milk teeth carefully kept in a special box. The imagery and characterization stay with you - they echo down the years. I found my old copy last month when cleaning out some old boxes; I set it aside, and read it this week. The book surpassed my memory of the book. Like life, there are unresolved loose ends and this is a good thing.