Grass, Gunter  (1927-2015) <br/><br/>
Local anaesthetic. 
/ Translated by Ralph Manheim 
 - [1st ed.] 
 - New York,  : Harcourt, Brace & World  , [1970] 
 - 284 p.  ; 22 cm. 
<br/><br/> "A Helen and Kurt Wolff book."  Translation of Örtlich betäubt. 
<br/><br/> Starusch, a bachelor aged forty teaching "German and history," two inseparable subjects, undergoes protracted treatment by a dentist who uses TV to distract his patients.  Reality and fantasy, the actual and the repressed, overrun the screen in a mirror image of German history. 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>78100501 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PZ4.G774   PT2613.R338  / Lo 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>FIC GRA