The kindness of strangers
(Book)
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Location | Call Number | Status | Due Date |
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Central - Adult Biography | B VIERTEL S | Checked Out | April 15, 2024 |
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Published
New York : New York Review Books, 2019.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
xx, 343 pages ; 21 cm.
Street Date
1901
Language
English
Notes
Description
"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, complete with encounters with Franz Kafka, Albert Einstein, and Greta Garbo along the way. Salka Viertel's autobiography tells of a brilliant, creative, and well-connected woman's pilgrimage through the darkest years of the twentieth 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 twentieth 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 Maybery 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.""--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Viertel, S. (2019). The kindness of strangers . New York Review Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Viertel, Salka. 2019. The Kindness of Strangers. New York Review Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Viertel, Salka. The Kindness of Strangers New York Review Books, 2019.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Viertel, Salka. The Kindness of Strangers New York Review Books, 2019.
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