Prater Violet

Christopher Isherwood

earliest edition we have, 1978 Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1987 127 pages

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"Prater Violet is... about the film industry. It centres around the production of the vacuous fictional melodrama Prater Violet, set in nineteenth-century Vienna, providing ironic counterpoint to tragic events as Hitler annexes the real Vienna of the 1930s. The novel features the vivid portraits of imperious, passionate, and witty Austrian director Friedrich Bergmann and his disciple, a genial young screenwriter - th...

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Editions we hold

La violeta del Prater paperback · 2021 · Acantilado · 128 pages · 9788418370175
Prater Violet paperback · 2015 · Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 144 pages · 9780374535247
Prater Violet edition · 2012 · Penguin Random House · 144 pages · 9780099561132
Prater violet edition · 2000 · University of Minnesota Press
Prater violet edition · 1991 · Minerva · 103 pages
Prater Violet edition · 1987 · Farrar, Straus, and Giroux · 127 pages
Prater Violet hardcover · 1984 · Methuen Publishing Ltd · 102 pages · 9780413563101
Prater Violet edition · 1983 · Querido · 111 pages · 9789021468587
Prater Violet edition · 1978 · Avon Books · 160 pages

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