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Imprint: Vintage Classics
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Published: 31/05/2012
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ISBN: 9780099561132
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Length: 144 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 9mm x 129mm
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Weight: 106g
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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.
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Imprint: Vintage Classics
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Published: 31/05/2012
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ISBN: 9780099561132
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Length: 144 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 9mm x 129mm
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Weight: 106g
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RRP: £8.99
Reviews
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"That young man holds the future of the English novel in his hands"
Somerset Maugham
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"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."
Dust for Prints.com
