Prater Violet
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Book Summary Author: Christopher Isherwood Edition: Paperback Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published) Published: 2001-04 ISBN: 0816638616 Number of pages: 144 Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press |
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Book Reviews of the Prater Violet
Customer Review: At the movies
Summary: 4 Stars
Isherwood's short novel is autobiographical fiction about being hired to write a screenplay for a movie called "Prater Violet" during early World War 2. There's lots of world politics, of course, as well as the politics of the worldwide movie industry (Hollywood included). Isherwood's writing is superb, and fills this brief space with a lush garden of a story. Here's a quote: "This business about the box office is just a sentimental democratic fiction. If you stuck together and refused to make anything but, say, abstract films, the public would have to go and see them, and like them..."