Gathering Evidence & My PrizesBy: Thomas Bernhard Written with a dark pain and drama that recalls the novels of Dickens, Gathering Evidence is a powerful and compelling memoir of youth by one of the twentieth centurys most gifted writers. Born in 1931, the illegitimate child of an abandoned mother, Thomas Bernhard was brought up by an eccentric grandmother and an adored grandfather in right wing, Catholic Austria. He ran away from home at age fifteen. Three years later, he