Cold Shoulder (Swiss Literature) - Softcover

Werner, Markus

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1943150001 ISBN 13: 9781943150007

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press, 2016

Synopsis

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 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.

About this title

About the Author:

Markus Werner was born in 1944 in Eschlikon, canton of Thurgau, Switzerland. Having written his dissertation on Max Frisch, Werner worked as a teacher in Schaffhausen before becoming a full-time writer in 1990. He is the author of seven novels, including On the Edge (2004), and has won numerous prizes.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1943150001
• ISBN 13: 9781943150007
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 98