Three plays (A Black Cat book) - Softcover

Kaufman, George S

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0394177444 ISBN 13: 9780394177441

Publisher: Grove Press, 1980

Synopsis

THREE PLAYS BY KAUFMAN AND HART: Once In A Lifetime, You Can't Take It With You, The Man Who Came To Dinner 1980 Mass-market paperback 307 pages Grove Press A Black Cat Book

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About the Author:

PIERRE FREI was born in 1930 and grew up in Berlin. He worked as a freelance foreign correspondent, reporting from Rome, Cairo, New York and London. Since 1990 he has lived in the southwest of France.

From Booklist:

Late 1945, as the blasted city is being carved up by its conquerors, a killer on a motorbike is carving up blue-eyed blonds in the American sector. As the victims fall, their lives unfold before our eyes in leisurely narratives: aspiring film ingenue Karin navigates the treacherous waters of Nazi showbiz; mother Helga attempts to save her retarded son from ruthless eugenics. There is a palling sameness to the manner in which each woman happens upon her doom loitering on the doorstep of her salvation, but the novel's emphasis is less on building tension than on a panoramic portrait of a nation seduced and raped by Hitler and his Reich. Most vivid is the depiction of postwar Berlin, especially as seen through the eyes of a German cop's teenage son, Ben, who negotiates the ravaged city in quest of a new suit of clothes with all the entrepreneurial flair of Tom Sawyer. Not a typical thriller, this may not appeal to all fans of Alan Furst and J. Robert Janes, but it will please those with an interest in the era. David Wright
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About this edition

• Publisher: Grove Press
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0394177444
• ISBN 13: 9780394177441
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336