Thomas Bernhard combined a searing wit and an unwavering gaze\ninto the human condition. His debut novel, Frost, marked the\nbeginning of one of the century’s most provocative literary\ncareers.

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Visceral, raw, singular, and unforgettable, Frost is the story\nof a friendship between a young man beginning his medical career\nand a painter in his final days. The youth has accepted an unusual\nassignment, to travel to a miserable mining town in the middle of\nnowhere in order to clinically—and secretly—observe and report on\nhis mentor’s reclusive brother, the painter Strauch. Carefully\ndisguising himself as a law student with a love of Henry James, he\nbefriends the aging artist and attempts to carry out his mission,\nonly to find himself caught up in his subject’s apparent\nmadness.

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