{"product_id":"prater-violet-a-novel-fsg-classics","title":"Prater Violet: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Christopher Isherwood\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"\u003cem\u003ePrater Violet\u003c\/em\u003e resembles the episodes in \u003cem\u003eGoodbye to Berlin\u003c\/em\u003e and keeps up the same high level of excellence.\"—Edmund Wilson, \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"\u003cem\u003ePrater Violet\u003c\/em\u003e, in my view, is one of the best short novels in English written in this century.\"—Stanley Kauffman,\u003cem\u003e The New Republic\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"\u003cem\u003ePrater Violet\u003c\/em\u003e is the most charming novel I have read in a long time.\"—Diana Trilling\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOriginally published in 1945, Christopher Isherwood's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ePrater Violet\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a stingingly satirical novel about the film industry. It centers around the production of the vacuous fictional melodrama '\u003c\/span\u003ePrater Violet'\u003cspan\u003e, set in nineteenth-century Vienna, providing an ironic counterpoint to tragic events as Hitler annexes the real Vienna of the 1930s. The novel features vivid portraits of the imperious, passionate, and witty Austrian director Friedrich Bergmann and his disciple, a genial young screenwriter―the fictionalized Christopher Isherwood.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback\u003cbr\u003e144 pages\u003cbr\u003eFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1945 \u003cbr\u003e5.5 x 0.4 x 8.2 inches\u003cbr\u003eISBN 9780374535247\u003cbr\u003eSatire, Fiction\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":15436104040520,"sku":"9780374535247","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0175\/8594\/products\/Prater-Violet_Christopher-Isherwood.jpg?v=1593186196","url":"https:\/\/neue-galerie-design-shop.myshopify.com\/products\/prater-violet-a-novel-fsg-classics","provider":"Neue Galerie Design Shop \u0026 Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}