Prater Violet : A Novel
(2013)
Fiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013
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1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781466853287 MWT16170182, 146685328X 16170182
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Prater Violet concerns the filming of an unashamedly romantic and commercial musical about old Vienna. It is a stinging satirical novel about the film industry, trifling studio feuds, and the fatuous movie Prater Violet, which, ironically, counterpoints the tragic events on the world stage as Hitler's lengthening shadow falls over the real Vienna of the thirties. At its center are vivid portraits of the mocking genius Friedrich Bergmann, the imperious, dazzlingly witty Austrian director, and his disciple, a genial young screenwriter-the fictionalized Christopher Isherwood
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