The Adventures of a Bed Salesman

Michael Kumpfmüller

Original title: Hampels Fluchten

Translated by Anthea Bell earliest edition we have, 2000 Picador, 2003 hardcover 432 pages

"This picaresque tale of a sexually voracious bed salesman whose life is dominated by his adventures with women opens in 1962 as thirty-year-old Heinrich Hampel crosses the Berlin Wall leaving the West for East. This is not a political gesture but a desperate attempt to escape debt and the sexual mayhem caused by his bold selling techniques. Charming his way into the hearts and beds of his female customers (in Bavari...

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This book in English

Anthea Bell 1 printing we hold · 2003 · Picador

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Editions we hold

The Adventures of a Bed Salesman paperback · 2004 · Picador · 432 pages · 9780312423360
The Adventures of a Bed Salesman paperback · 2003 · Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) · 426 pages · 9780753817124
The Adventures of a Bed Salesman hardcover · 2003 · Picador · 432 pages · 9780312287481
Hampels Fluchten. paperback · 2002 · Fischer (Tb.), Frankfurt · 429 pages · 9783596148462
The adventures of a bed salesman edition · 2002 · Weidenfeld & Nicolson · 420 pages
Hampels Fluchten hardcover · 2000 · Kiepenheuer & Witsch · 493 pages · 9783462029277

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