My Life is like a Fairy Tale by Robert Irwin

My Life is like a Fairy Tale by Robert Irwin

'Robert Irwin vividly and brilliantly blends the fictional life and all-too-real times of a film star of the Nazi era in this a narrative of diminishing options and the advance to death and destruction. Cultured, clever and funny at times, in a grim Charles Adams way, Robert Irwin's novel is engrossing and enveloping.

From a dull Dutch childhood in Dordrecht and a waitressing job, sexy Sonja Heda, cigarette in hand, wangles her way on to the film sets of various independent production companies making the films of the Weimar and Nazi eras. From The Blue Angel, The Gypsy Baron, Jew Suss, Habanera and Munchausen she lands the starring role in the Nazi screwball comedy Bagdad Capers.

Although German cinema became a key part of the Nazi war effort, the film industry continued to produce commercial films appealing to the varying film tastes of German filmgoers. Joseph Goebbels at the head of the Ministry of Propaganda propagated Nazi supremacist ideology and indoctrinate the population of Germany though film and radio, not unlike the way reality TV and social media are used today by populist politicians in the US and UK.'

Georgia de Chamberet in Ten Books for Independent Minds from Bookblast

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ISBN 13	9781912868193
ISBN 10	1912868199
Title	My Life is like a Fairy Tale
Author	Robert Irwin
Series	Dedalus Original Fiction In Paperback
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Dedalus Ltd
Year published	2019-11-15
Number of pages	350
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.