Author: ISHERWOOD, CHRISTOPHER
Title: Prater Violet
Description: New York: Random House, 1945. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Second Printing. This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking the dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright with the exception of a previous owner's inked gift notation on the front endpaper. This book is the author's fictionalized account of his adventures as a screenwriter in Hollywood. "Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood (26 August 1904 – 4 January 1986) was an English novelist...While living in Hollywood, California, Isherwood befriended Truman Capote, an up-and-coming young writer who would be influenced by Isherwood's Berlin Stories, most specifically in the traces of the story "Sally Bowles" that surface in Capote's famed novella, Breakfast at Tiffany's. [18]Isherwood also had a close friendship with the British writer, Aldous Huxley, with whom he sometimes collaborated. Gerald Heard had introduced Huxley to Vedanta (Upanishad-centered philosophy) and meditation. ". Very Good+ .
Keywords: Modern Fiction Christopher Isherwood Hollywood screenplays screenwriters Modern Fiction
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Title: Prater Violet
Description: New York: Random House, 1945. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Second Printing. This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking the dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright with the exception of a previous owner's inked gift notation on the front endpaper. This book is the author's fictionalized account of his adventures as a screenwriter in Hollywood. "Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood (26 August 1904 – 4 January 1986) was an English novelist...While living in Hollywood, California, Isherwood befriended Truman Capote, an up-and-coming young writer who would be influenced by Isherwood's Berlin Stories, most specifically in the traces of the story "Sally Bowles" that surface in Capote's famed novella, Breakfast at Tiffany's. [18]Isherwood also had a close friendship with the British writer, Aldous Huxley, with whom he sometimes collaborated. Gerald Heard had introduced Huxley to Vedanta (Upanishad-centered philosophy) and meditation. ". Very Good+ .
Keywords: Modern Fiction Christopher Isherwood Hollywood screenplays screenwriters Modern Fiction
Price: US$ 20.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 33132
- Book number: 33132
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