Goodbye to Berlin
Author(s): Christopher Isherwood
"I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking," are the famous lines on the first page. This a semiautobiographical account of Isherwood's time in 1930s Berlin. Written as a connected series of six short stories the book, first published in 1939, is a brilliant evocation of the decadence and repression, glamour and sleaze of Berlin society. Isherwood shows the lives of people at threat from the rise of the Nazis: Natalia Laundauer, the rich, Jewish heiress, Peter and Otto, a gay couple andthe "divinely decadent" Sally Bowles, a young English woman who was so memorably portrayed by Liza Minnelli.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Random House UK
- : VINTAGE ARROW - MASS MARKET
- : 0.19
- : March 1997
- : 198mm X 129mm X 16mm
- : books
Special Fields
- : 256
- : Paperback
- : Christopher Isherwood