{"product_id":"9780099561132","title":"Prater Violet","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Isherwood, Christopher \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 31\/05\/2012,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 144 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780099561132,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A deliberate historical parable. Prater Violet resembles episodes in Goodbye to Berlin and keeps up the same high level of excellence' - Edmund WilsonAn impatient phone call from the temperamental Austrian director, Friedrich Bergmann, introduces a young Christopher Isherwood to the film industry. Isherwood's job is to rescue the script of an idiotic love story set in nineteenth-century Vienna, a film called Prater Violet. In the real Vienna of 1934 the Austrian Right crushes a socialist uprising. Bergmann is distraught and his prophecy of the coming war goes unheeded. As tensions on set grow, studio intrigues and competing egos threaten to derail the whole project.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43697710235692,"sku":"9780099561132","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780099561132.jpg?v=1722600594","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9780099561132","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}