Written in an encrypted notebook while incarcerated in a Nazi insane asylum and discovered after his death, The Drinker may be Hans Fallada’s most breathtaking piece of craftsmanship. It is an intense yet absorbing study of the descent into drunkenness by an intelligent man who fears he’s lost it all.
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- ISBN10 091039556X
- ISBN13 9780910395564
- Publish Date 1 May 1990
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 3 January 2008
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Marlboro Press,The,U.S.
- Format Paperback
- Pages 282
- Language English