Prater Violet by Christopher Isherwood

Prater Violet by Christopher Isherwood

With one impatient phone call, a young Christopher Isherwood is drawn into the film industry.

On the other end of the line is temperamental Austrian director Friedrich Bergmann. Christopher’s job is to rescue the script of an idiotic love story set in nineteenth-century Vienna, a film called Prater Violet. Meanwhile, in the real Vienna of 1934, the Austrian right crushes a socialist uprising. Bergmann is distraught; his prophecy of a coming war goes unheeded. As tensions on set grow, studio intrigues and competing egos threaten to derail the whole project, and Hitler’s shadow lengthens over Europe.

‘A masterly novella’ Guardian

‘A deliberate historical parable. Prater Violet resembles episodes in Goodbye to Berlin and keeps up the same high level of excellence’ New Yorker

That young man holds the future of the English novel in his hands -- Somerset Maugham
Isherwood’s prose fizzes and bubbles lightly like an alka-seltzer in water before sinking like a brick in the pit of your stomachIt sits with you and stays with you. * Dust for Prints.com *

Christopher Isherwood was born in 1904. He began to write at university and later moved to Berlin, where he gave English lessons to support himself. He witnessed first hand the rise to power of Hitler and the Nazi party in Germany and some of his best works, such as Mr. Norris Changes Trains and Goodbye to Berlin, draw on these experiences. He created the character of Sally Bowles, later made famous as the heroine of the musical Cabaret. Isherwood travelled with W.H Auden to China in the late 1930s before going with him to America in 1939. He died on 4 January 1986. His novel A Single Man was recently made into an award-winning film by Tom Ford, starring Colin Firth and Julianne Moore

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ISBN 13	9780099561132
ISBN 10	0099561131
Title	Prater Violet
Author	Christopher Isherwood
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2012-05-31
Number of pages	144
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