For five years, Konrad has imprisoned himself and his crippled wife in an abandoned lime works where he’s conducted odd auditory experiments and prepared to write his masterwork, The Sense of Hearing. As the story begins, he’s just blown the head off his wife with the Mannlicher carbine she kept strapped to her wheelchair. The murder and the bizarre life that led to it are the subject of a mass of hearsay related by an unnamed life-insurance salesman in a narrative as mazy, byzantine, and mysterious as the lime worksKonrad’s sanctuary and tomb.

Format: Hardcover
Published: in USA in 1973
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc
Pages: 241
Language: English
ISBN 13: 9780394479262
ISBN 10: 0394479262
Edition: 1st US Ed.