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Prater Violet: A Novel
by Christopher Isherwood (Author)★★★★★
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"Prater Violet is the most charming novel I have read in a long time." ―Diana TrillingOriginally published in 1945, Christopher Isherwood's Prater Violet is a stingingly satirical novel about the film industry. It centers around the production of the vacuous fictional melodrama Prater Violet, set in nineteenth-century Vienna, providing an ironic counterpoint to tragic events as Hitler annexes the real Vienna of the 1930s. The novel features vivid portraits of the imperious, passionate, and witty Austrian director Friedrich Bergmann and his disciple, a genial young screenwriter―the fictionalized Christopher Isherwood. Read more
Product Information
| Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Publication date | Feb. 10 2015 |
| Edition | Reissue |
| Language | English |
| Print length | 144 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 0374535248 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0374535247 |
| Item weight | 136 g |
| Dimensions | 14.2 x 0.84 x 21.08 cm |
| Best Sellers Rank | #910,728 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #1,674 in Dark Humour #2,294 in Politcal Fiction #2,826 in Satire |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 45 ratings |