Berlin: Imagine a City - Softcover

MacLean, Rory

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1780224583 ISBN 13: 9781780224589

Verlag: W&N, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

The first single-volume biography of Berlin, one of the world's great cities - told via twenty-one portraits, from medieval times to the twenty-first century.

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Rory MacLean has known three Berlins: West Berlin, where he made movies with David Bowie and Marlene Dietrich; East Berlin, where he researched his first best seller STALIN'S NOSE; and the unified capital where he lives and works today. His nine books have challenged and invigorated creative non-fiction writing, and - according to the late John Fowles - are among works that 'marvellously explain why literature still lives'. He has won awards from the Canada Council and the Arts Council of England as well as a Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship, and was nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary prize. He has also written and presented over 50 BBC radio programmes and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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Through vivid portraits spanning five centuries, Rory MacLean reveals the varied and rich history of Berlin, from its brightest to its darkest moments. We encounter an ambitious prostitute refashioning herself as a princess, a Scottish mercenary fighting for the Prussian Army, Marlene Dietrich flaunting her sexuality and Hitler fantasising about the mega-city Germania. The result is a uniquely imaginative biography of one of the world's most volatile yet creative cities.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: W&N
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1780224583
• ISBN 13: 9781780224589
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 432
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Hachette Ireland; info@hbgi.ie; ; 8 Castlecourt Centre, Castleknock Road, Castleknock; Dublin 15; D15 XTP3; Irland