Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 31/05/2012
ISBN: 9780099561132
Length: 144 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 9mm x 129mm
Weight: 106g
RRP: £8.99
'A deliberate historical parable. Prater Violet resembles episodes in Goodbye to Berlin and keeps up the same high level of excellence' - Edmund Wilson
An impatient phone call from the temperamental Austrian director, Friedrich Bergmann, introduces a young Christopher Isherwood to the film industry. Isherwood's job is to rescue the script of an idiotic love story set in nineteenth-century Vienna, a film called Prater Violet. In the real Vienna of 1934 the Austrian Right crushes a socialist uprising. Bergmann is distraught and his prophecy of the coming war goes unheeded. As tensions on set grow, studio intrigues and competing egos threaten to derail the whole project.
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 31/05/2012
ISBN: 9780099561132
Length: 144 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 9mm x 129mm
Weight: 106g
RRP: £8.99
That young man holds the future of the English novel in his hands
Isherwood’s prose fizzes and bubbles lightly like an alka-seltzer in water before sinking like a brick in the pit of your stomach. It sits with you and stays with you.