Prater Violet
by Christopher Isherwood
Buy on AmazonPrater Violet is Christopher Isherwood's 1945 fictional first person account of film-making. The Prater is a large park and amusement park in Vienna, a city important to characters in the novel for several reasons. Though Isherwood broke onto the literary scene as a novelist, he eventually worked in Hollywood as a screenwriter. In this novel, Isherwood comments on life, art, commercialization of art and Nazism.
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"Christopher Isherwood's "Prater Violet" — a romantic yet stinging mix of the personal and the professional — is a longtime favorite."
By the Book: Ed Zwick · nytimes.com