Goodbye to Berlin
Author | : Christopher Isherwood |
Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2012-09-27 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780811220248 |
ISBN-13 | : 0811220249 |
Rating | : 4/5 (249 Downloads) |
Download or read book Goodbye to Berlin written by Christopher Isherwood and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First published in 1939, Goodbye to Berlin has been popularized on stage and screen by Julie Harris in I Am a Camera and Liza Minelli in Cabaret. Unflinchingly precise and funny, Isherwood captures the city where he lived from 1929 to 1933, its charming avenues and cafés; its sexy night life; its dreamers, eccentrics, runaways, cadgers; its morally bankrupt mobs and millionaires. Hitler's shadow looms over Isherwood's demimonde--the divinely decadent Sally Bowles; plump Fraulein Schroeder, who considers reducing her Büste to relieve her heart palpitations; the quarrelsome, childlike Nowaks suffocated by poverty and disease; the wealthy and doomed Jewish merchants the Landauers"--