Andrew Steinmetz

This Great Escape

The Case of Michael Paryla

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Great escapes meet greater escapism: how the life of a displaced Jewish actor illuminates the 1963 Hollywood blockbuster.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Biblioasis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 139mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 313g
• ISBN-13: 9781927428337
• ISBN-10: 1927428335
• Artikelnr.: 37274880

Autorenporträt

Born in Montreal, Andrew Steinmetz is the author of a memoir (Wardlife: The Apprenticeship of a Young Writer as a Hospital Clerk) and two collections of poetry (Histories and Hurt Thyself). His novel, Eva’s Threepenny Theatre , tells the story of his great-aunt Eva who performed in one of first touring productions of Bertolt Brecht’s masterpiece The Threepenny Opera, in 1928. An unusual fiction about memoir, Eva’s Threepenny Theatre won the 2009 City of Ottawa Book Award and was a finalist for the 2009 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. Steinmetz is also the founding editor of Esplanade Books, the fiction imprint at Véhicule Press.

Inhaltsangabe

This Great Escape: The Case of Michael Paryla
The Case
Appell (5)
Escape Construction (6)
Screenplay (7)
Michi's Diary (10)
Unnecessary Travel Lengthens the War (15)
The Seagull (30)
Letters to Eva (57)
Cousins und Kunst (71)
The Great Escape for Those Who Missed it (89)
DeutschBahn Ice 164 (136)
Stateless Person of Undetermined Nationality: A Review of The Evidence
(141)
The War on Michael: Dear John Leyton - Extra Hater (144)
'Shot in The Never Get Bored' (154)
Hangin' in Hamburg (162)
The Author is Dead (190)
The Actor's Entrance (194)
DeutschBahn Ice 164 (208)
Stop Pause Play (210)
Waldfriedhof Cemetery (220)
Dear Michael (227)
Simple Song (267)
Casting (275)
Notes