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Prater violet / a novel by Christopher Isherwood.
Van Pelt Library PR6017.S5 P73 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-1986.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion picture industry--Fiction.
- Motion picture industry.
- London (England)--Fiction.
- London (England).
- Vienna (Austria)--Fiction.
- Vienna (Austria).
- Jewish families--Fiction.
- Jewish families.
- Jews--Austria--Fiction.
- Jews.
- Austria.
- Screenwriters--Fiction.
- Screenwriters.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 127 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First University of Minnesota Press edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2001.
- Summary:
- Originally published in 1945, Prater Violet is a stingingly satirical novel about the film industry. It centers around the production of the vacuous fictional melodrama Prater Violet, set in nineteenth-century Vienna, providing ironic counterpoint to tragic events as Hitler annexes the real Vienna of the 1930s. The novel features the vivid portraits of imperious, passionate, and witty Austrian director Friedrich Bergmann and his disciple, a genial young screenwriter -- the fictionalized Christopher Isherwood.
- Notes:
- Originally published: New York : Random House, c1945.
- ISBN:
- 0816638616
- OCLC:
- 45668840
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