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Fiction of Gay Interest
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Plot / Content: Rating: N "Prater Violet was one of those nostalgic filsm of the Vienna of the Hapsburgs, with a flowergirl and a Crown Prince masquerading as a student. But for Mr Isherwood the film was not so important as the people who made it - Lawrence the cutter, Roger the cameraman, Mr Watts the lighting expert . . . He brings the real world of the studios sharply into focus and describes his characters with insight and humour. "Dr Bergmann, the Viennese director, dominates the book. The rising of the Austrian workers against Dollfuss comes as a sudden, startling eruption of contemporary history into the world of make-believe and affects Dr Bergmann so strongly that he almost ruins the film. "this is another of those explorations of a personality at which Mr Isherwood is an acknowledged master. He brings to it the same brilliant gifts as place Mr Norris Changes Trains and Goodbye to Berlin among the few really outstanding novels of the last decade." (from the cover - note that "Prater Violet is based on Isherwood's experience as a screenwriter for the British Gaumont film Little Friend (1934)" according to the Wikipedia article on this book) Background / Biography: Isherwood (1904 - 1986) was born in the UK but spent most of his life in the United States. The author of over thirty books, he is best known as the writer-narrator of the books (Mr Norris Changes Trains and Goodbye to Berlin) that were adapted for the Liza Minnelli / Michael York film Cabaret. Wikipedia biography Reviews: Arbery Books also sells secondhand and rare non-gay fiction and non-fiction. Click here for our full list. |
"'Mr Isherwood?' 'Speaking.' 'Mr Christopher Isherwood?' 'That's me.' 'You know, we've been trying to contact you ever since yesterday afternoon.' The voice at the other end of the wire was a bit reproachful. 'I was out.' 'You were out?' (Not altogether convinced.) 'Yes.' 'Oh . . . I see . . .' A pause, to consider this. Then, suddenly suspicious: ' That's funny, though . . . Your number was always engaged. All the time.'" opening paragraphs Secondhand booksellers |
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