- Alumni and alumnae, Union Theological Seminary (New York, N.Y.), Germany, fiction, Fiction, general
In Couples, Passersby, the controversial German writer Botho Strauss deftly combines the fantastic and the mundane to depict a society in which people pair off only to find greater isolation and alienation.
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Contemporary, prestige, character-led and grave.
- contemporarynostalgic
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Botho Strauss
- First published
- 1996
- Pages
- 126
- Publisher
- Hydra Books/Northwestern University Press
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780810112421
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