Prater Violet by Christopher Isherwood
"Prater Violet is the most charming novel I have read in a long time." --Diana Trilling
Originally 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.
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem
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Play It as It Lays
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Sophie's World
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Everything that Rises Must Converge
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Wise Blood
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The Autobiography of My Mother
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The Moviegoer
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The Violent Bear It Away
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The Death of Artemio Cruz
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The Lottery and Other Stories
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Fierce Attachments
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The Country Girls: Three Novels and an Epilogue
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The Natural
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The White Goddess
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Cancer Ward
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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The Collected Stories
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Hunger
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Christ Stopped at Eboli
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The Kingdom of This World
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The Complete Stories
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Kathleen and Frank
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To the Finland Station
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Danube
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The Assistant
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Selected Verse
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Sylvia
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A Sorrow Beyond Dreams
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Wise Children
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The Golden Ass
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The Towers of Trebizond
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Epitaph of a Small Winner
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77 Dream Songs
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On Grief and Reason
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Stories and Prose Poems
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The Family Moskat
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The World in the Evening
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Geography III
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Field Work
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Watermark
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On Poetry and Poets
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The Men's Club
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Down There on a Visit
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The Dead Father
Isherwood, Christopher: - Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986) was born outside of Manchester, England. His life in Berlin from 1929 to 1933 inspired The Berlin Stories, which were adapted into a play, a film, and the musical Cabaret. Isherwood immigrated to the United States in 1939. A major figure in twentieth-century fiction and the gay rights movement, he wrote more than twenty books, including the novel A Single Man and his autobiography, Christopher and His Kind.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780374535247 |
| ISBN 10 | 0374535248 |
| Title | Prater Violet |
| Author | Christopher Isherwood |
| Series | Fsg Classics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Year published | 2015-02-10 |
| Number of pages | 144 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |