The artificial silk girl
Keun, Irmgard, 1905-19822019
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Doris is going to be a big star. Wearing a stolen fur coat and recently fired from her office job, she takes an all-night train to Berlin to make it in the movies. But what she encounters in the city is not fame and fortune, but gnawing hunger, seedy bars, and exploitative men - and as Doris sinks ever lower, she resorts to desperate measures to survive. Very funny and intensely moving, this is a dazzling portrait of roaring Berlin in the 1920s, and a poignant exploration of the doomed pursuit of fame and glamour.
Main title:
The artificial silk girl / Irmgard Keun ; translated by Kathie von Ankum.
Imprint:
UK : Penguin Books, 2019.UK : Penguin Books, 2019.
Collation:
143 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the German.
ISBN:
9780241382967 (pbk)
Language:
EnglishGerman
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BRN:
2123118