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Goodbye to Berlin
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VINTAGE DECO – Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s – 100 years on.
Goodbye to Berlin is the novella that inspired Cabaret, evoking the glamour and sleaze, excess and repression of Berlin society. Isherwood depicts the lives of people under threat from the rise of the Nazis: a wealthy Jewish heiress, Natalia Landauer; a gay couple, Peter and Otto; and an English upper-class waif, the divinely decadent Sally Bowles.
'I'm the type which every man imagines he wants, until he gets me; and then he finds he doesn't really, after all.'
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Christopher Isherwood's Goodbye to Berlin is praised for its unique narrative voice, seamlessly blending historical context with imaginative storytelling, which remains fresh and engaging no matter how often it is experienced. While the character of Sally Bowles gained fame through the musical adaptation Cabaret, the book itself is noted for its depth and impact surpassing that of its theatrical counterpart.
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ISBN: 9781784878108
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 06 October 2022
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 12.0mm
Width: 120.0mm
Height: 192.0mm
Weight: 220g
Pages: 272
About the Author
Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986) was one of the most celebrated writers of his generation. He left Cambridge without graduating, briefly studied medicine and then turned to writing his first novels, All the Conspirators and The Memorial. Between 1929 and 1939 he lived mainly abroad, spending four years in Berlin and writing the novels Mr Norris Changes Trains and Goodbye to Berlin on which the musical Cabaret was based. He moved to America in 1939, becoming a US citizen in 1946, and wrote another five novels, including Down There on a Visit and A Single Man, a travel book about South America and a biography of the Indian mystic Ramakrishna. In the late 1960s and '70s he turned to autobiographical works- Kathleen and Frank, Christopher and His Kind, My Guru and His Disciple and October, one month of his diary with drawings by Don Bachardy.
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