About this title: Winner of the 2003 Prix Goncourt, a novel hailed by the times literary supplement as "a delicate, elegiac tale of political failure and defeated love." A fictional story based on the final years of playwright Bertolt Brecht, "Brecht's Mistress" is a literary Cold War thriller that "recalls le Carre" ("Daily Telegraph") in its evocation of the grim world of postwar East Germany and its depiction of personal destinies intertwined with superpower rivalry. Inspired by an actual photograph taken of Brecht and a beautiful unknown young woman, Amette's novel opens on October 22, 1948, the ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New Press
Date Published: 11/2005
ISBN-13:9781595580191ISBN:1595580190
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 228 p. read more
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Description: Reader copy. Ex-Public Library. Spine has been repaired and some page edges are mis-matched. Covers show some wear. Usual library stickers and stamps. Save a tree-buy used.. read more
Description: Very good. Book has appearance of only minimal use. All pages are undamaged with no significant creases or tears. With pride from Motor City. All books guaranteed. Best Service, Best Prices. read more
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Edition: First Edition (1st printing)
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: New Press, NY
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9781595580191ISBN:1595580190
Description: As New in As New jacket. 16mo-over 5¾"-6¾" tall. This is a New and Unread copy of the first edition (1st printing) NOT a remainder copy. read more
Description: New. Winner of the 2003 Prix Goncourt, France's most prestigious literary award, Jacques-Pierre Amette constructs a tale of ambition and betrayal inspired by a photograph of the playwright Bertolt Brecht an unknown young woman. Set in the final years o. read more
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