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A memoir about showbiz in the early 20th century that travels from the theaters of Vienna, Prague, and Berlin, to Hollywood during the golden age.
Salka Viertel's autobiography tells of a brilliant, creative, and well-connected woman's pilgrimage through the darkest years of the 20th century, a journey that would take her from a remote province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire to Hollywood. The Kindness of Strangers is, to quote the New Yorker writer S. N. Behrman, "a very rich book. It provides a panorama of the dissolving civilizations of the 20th century. In all of them the author lived at the apex of their culture and artistic aristocracies. Her childhood...is an entrancing idyll. In Berlin, in Prague, in Vienna, there appears Karl Kraus, Kafka, Rilke, Robert Musil, Schoenberg, Einstein, Alban Berg. There is the suffering and disruption of the First World War and the suffering and agony after it, which is described with such intimacy and vividness that you endure these terrible years with the author. Then comes the migration to Hollywood, where Salka's house on Mabery Road becomes a kind of Pantheon for the gathered artists, musicians, and writers. It seems to me that no one has ever described Hollywood and the life of writers there with such verve."
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In elegant and witty prose, André Aciman introduces us to the marvelous eccentrics who shaped his life—Uncle Vili, the strutting daredevil, soldier, salesman, and spy; the two grandmothers, the Princess and the Saint, who gossip in six languages; Aunt Flora, the German refugee who warns that Jews lose everything "at least twice in their lives." And through it all, we come to know a boy who, even as he longs for a wider world, does not want to be led, forever, out of Egypt.
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Perfect match
- De Bob en 06-24-23
De: André Aciman
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The Hare with Amber Eyes
- A Hidden Inheritance
- De: Edmund de Waal
- Narrado por: Michael Maloney
- Duración: 10 h y 39 m
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The Ephrussis were a grand banking family, as rich and respected as the Rothschilds, who “burned like a comet” in 19th-century Paris and Vienna society. Yet by the end of World War II, almost the only thing remaining of their vast empire was a collection of 264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them larger than a matchbox. The renowned ceramicist Edmund de Waal became the fifth generation to inherit this small and exquisite collection of netsuke. Entranced by their beauty and mystery, he determined to trace the story of his family through the story of the collection.
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A vagabond through history, clutching a tiny carvi
- De SB Price en 01-19-12
De: Edmund de Waal
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Five Came Back
- A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War
- De: Mark Harris
- Narrado por: Andrew Garman
- Duración: 20 h y 1 m
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It was the best of times and the worst of times for Hollywood before the war. The box office was booming, and the studios’ control of talent and distribution was as airtight as could be hoped. But the industry’s relationship with Washington was decidedly uneasy - hearings and investigations into allegations of corruption and racketeering were multiplying, and hanging in the air was the insinuation that the business was too foreign, too Jewish, too "un-American" in its values and causes. Could an industry this powerful in shaping America’s mind-set really be left in the hands of this crew?
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Had a lot of fun with this book!
- De Detail-oriented en 08-11-14
De: Mark Harris
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The Sun and Her Stars
- Salka Viertel and Hitler's Exiles in the Golden Age of Hollywood
- De: Donna Rifkind
- Narrado por: Heather Henderson
- Duración: 12 h y 36 m
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The little-known story of screenwriter Salka Viertel, whose salons in 1930s and 40s Hollywood created a refuge for a multitude of famous figures who had escaped the horrors of World War II.
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What an interesting story!
- De JAR en 11-06-23
De: Donna Rifkind
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City of Nets
- A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940's
- De: Otto Friedrich, Glen David Gold - foreword
- Narrado por: P.J. Ochlan
- Duración: 25 h y 57 m
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In 1939, 50 million Americans went to the movies every week, Louis B. Mayer was the highest-paid man in the country, and Hollywood produced 530 feature films a year. One decade and five thousand movies later, the studios were faltering....
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Disjointed and flawed
- De A. N. Onymous en 01-18-22
De: Otto Friedrich, y otros
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The Sympathizer
- A Novel
- De: Viet Thanh Nguyen
- Narrado por: Francois Chau
- Duración: 13 h y 53 m
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Pulitzer Prize, Fiction, 2016. It is April 1975, and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking whiskey and, with the help of his trusted captain, drawing up a list of those who will be given passage aboard the last flights out of the country. The general and his compatriots start a new life in Los Angeles, unaware that one among their number, the captain, is secretly observing and reporting on the group to a higher-up in the Viet Cong.
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The Great Vietnamese Novel(Port)Nguyen's Complaint
- De Joe Kraus en 03-31-16