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Goodbye To Berlin
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Christopher Isherwood introduces Sally Bowles in this pre-war Berlin novel.
Set in the 1930s, Goodbye to Berlin, evokes the glamour and sleaze, excess and repression of Berlin society. Isherwood shows the lives of people under threat from the rise of the Nazis: a wealthy Jewish heiress, Natalia Landauer, a gay couple, Peter and Otto, and an English upper-class waif, the divinely decadent Sally Bowles.
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Set in the 1930s, Goodbye to Berlin, evokes the glamour and sleaze, excess and repression of Berlin society. Isherwood shows the lives of people under threat from the rise of the Nazis: a wealthy Jewish heiress, Natalia Landauer, a gay couple, Peter and Otto, and an English upper-class waif, the divinely decadent Sally Bowles.
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Product details
- Paperback | 272 pages
- 129 x 198 x 17mm | 192g
- 14 Aug 2003
- Vintage Publishing
- Vintage Classics
- London, United Kingdom
- English
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- 0749390549
- 9780749390549
- 3,170
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"A great talent"
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"A brilliant semi-autobiographical account of early 1930's Berlin." * Lonely Planet Magazine * "A great talent" * Guardian * "Isherwood is a master of the emotionally cathartic moment, funny and perspicacious" * Evening Standard * "A masterpiece" * The Economist * "[A] reminder of a bygone era, powerfully capturing the energy and sleaze of Weimar-era Berlin" * Independent *
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About Christopher Isherwood
Christopher Isherwood was born in 1904 and moved to America where he took up formal citizenship in 1946. His many famous works include Mr Norris Changes Trains and Goodbye to Berlin.
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