- Series: Penguin Modern Classics
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- ISBN: 9780241382967
- Length: 160 pages
- Dimensions: 197mm x 9mm x 129mm
- Weight: 125g
- Price: £9.99
The Artificial Silk Girl
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Doris is going to be a big star. Wearing a stolen fur coat and recently fired from her office job, she takes an all-night train to Berlin to make it in the movies. But what she encounters in the city is not fame and fortune, but gnawing hunger, seedy bars, and exploitative men - and as Doris sinks ever lower, she resorts to desperate measures to survive. Very funny and intensely moving, this is a dazzling portrait of roaring Berlin in the 1920s, and a poignant exploration of the doomed pursuit of fame and glamour.
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