About this title: PRATER VIOLET is the story of the filming of an unashamedly romantic and commercial musical about old Vienna. This stinging satirical novel skewers the film industry, trifling studio feuds, and the fatuous movie, the eponymous PRATER VIOLET, which ironically counterpoints the tragic events on the world stage as Hitler's lengthening shadow falls over the real Vienna of the 1930s. At its center are vivid portraits of the mocking genius Friedrich Bergmann, an imperious, dazzlingly witty Austrian director, and his disciple, a genial young screenwriter--the fictionalized Christopher Isherwood.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Avon
Date Published: 1983
ISBN-13:9780380018369ISBN:0380018365
Description: Acceptable. MAY HAVE COVER WEAR, SPINE CREASES, HIGHLIGHTING, UNDERLINING & PAGES YELLOWED FROM AGE. FASTER SERVICE FROM US! ! ! read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Date Published: 1967
Description: Good. Tight spine with normal shelf wear and creasing. "A brilliant shor novel about evil and the artist in the world of film" Pages are starting to yellow. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Paperbacks-Fiction Inventory No: 000936. read more
Edition: First Mass Market Edition
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Morrow/Avon, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1978
ISBN-13:9780380018369ISBN:0380018365
Description: Very Good. Mass Market 0380018365 Used minor shelfwear. read more
Edition: First edition. Believed first editon: 1945
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Random House
Date Published: 1945
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Cover has some shelf wear, lower right corner of cover is curled, edge wear. Pages are clean and unmarked except for previous owners name first page. 127p., 18 cm. Originally published, Random House, 1945. read more
Edition: Fourth printing
Binding: Hardcover--cloth
Publisher: Random House,, New York, New York:
Date Published: 1945.
Description: Very Good/Very Good. Duodecimo 7 1/2 " tall, 128 pages, gray cloth. A very good, clean, neat hard cover with light shelf wear but some foxing to the margins, hinges and binding tight, paper cream white. In a very good dust jacket with minor edge wear, some chipping at the folds, with price clipped. A nice reading copy. read more
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