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Runaway waltz : a memoir from Vienna to New York / Frederic Morton.
Van Pelt Library PS3525.O825 Z47 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Morton, Frederic.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Morton, Frederic.
- Authors, American--20th century--Biography.
- Authors, American.
- Austrian Americans.
- Jewish refugees--United States--Biography.
- Jewish refugees.
- United States.
- Jews--United States--Biography.
- Jews.
- Austrian Americans--Biography.
- Vienna (Austria)--Biography.
- Vienna (Austria).
- New York (N.Y.)--Biography.
- New York (N.Y.).
- National Book Committee.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 212 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Simon & Schuster, [2005]
- Summary:
- This deeply personal work is the riveting memoir of the author's harrowing flight form Vienna to New York City on the eve of World War II. Though he does not learn English until he is 19, he goes on to succeed as a writer and essayist.
- ISBN:
- 0743225392
- OCLC:
- 57549863
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