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The Assignment: or, On the Observing of the Observer of the Observers

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In Friedrich D�rrenmatt's experimental thriller The Assignment, the wife of a psychiatrist has been raped and killed near a desert ruin in North Africa. Her husband hires a woman named F. to reconstruct the unsolved crime in a documentary film. F. is soon unwittingly thrust into a paranoid world of international espionage where everyone is watched-including the watchers. After discovering a recent... More
Book Information
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
BindingPaperback (9 editions)
Reading LevelUncategorized
# of Pages152
ISBN-100226174468
ISBN-13978-0226174464
Publication Date10/15/2008
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About Friedrich Durrenmatt (Author) : Friedrich Durrenmatt is a published author. Published credits of Friedrich Durrenmatt include The Assignment: Or on the Observing of the Observer of the Observers.
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About Theodore Ziolkowski (Foreword) : Theodore Ziolkowski is a published author. A published credit of Theodore Ziolkowski is Philosophy into fiction. : An article from: American Scholar.
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About Joel Agee (Translator) : Joel Agee is a published author and a translator. Published credits of Joel Agee include Letters to Barbara and The Crow In The Snow & Other Bedtime Stories.
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