{"product_id":"gathering-evidence-my-prizes","title":"Gathering Evidence\/My Prizes","description":"Written with a dark pain and drama that recalls the novels of Dickens, \u003ci\u003eGathering Evidence\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful and compelling memoir of youth by one of the twentieth century's most gifted writers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBorn in 1931, the illegitimate child of an abandoned mother, Thomas Bernhard was brought up by an eccentric grandmother and an adored grandfather in right-wing, Catholic Austria. He ran away from home at age fifteen. Three years later, he contracted pneumonia and was placed in a hospital ward for the old and terminally ill, where he observed first-hand--and with unflinching acuity--the cruel nature of protracted suffering and death. From the age of twenty-one, everything he wrote was shaped by the urgency of a dying man's testament--and where this account of his life ends, his art begins. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIncluded in this edition is \u003ci\u003eMy Prizes\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of Bernhard's viciously funny and revelatory essays on his later literary life. Here is a portrait of the artist as a prize-winner: laconic, sardonic, shaking his head with biting amusement at the world and at himself.","brand":"Knopf Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54403656122734,"sku":"9781400077625","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/1007\/0382\/files\/imageloader_5a306c2c-98f8-4950-8ca9-d4c72dce229d.jpg?v=1785286666","url":"https:\/\/tenderbuttonsbooks.com\/products\/gathering-evidence-my-prizes","provider":"Tender Buttons Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}