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"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"--
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Goodbye to Berlin, Christopher Isherwood
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- Released
- 2012
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- Title
- Goodbye to Berlin
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Christopher Isherwood
- Publisher
- Norton
- Released
- 2012
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0811220249
- ISBN13
- 9780811220248
- Series
- The Berlin Novels
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Classics, Short Stories, Germany, LGBTQ+, British Literature, Life, Adapted for Film, Berlin, Nazism, Homosexuality, Autobiographical Novels, Prostitution, Weimar Republic, Interwar Period, Cabaret, Sanatorium
- Rating
- 3.95 out of 5
- Description
- "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"--