{"product_id":"goodbye-to-berlin-9780811220248","title":"Goodbye to Berlin","description":"First published in 1934, \u003cem\u003eGoodbye to Berlin\u003c\/em\u003e has been popularized on stage and screen by Julie Harris in \u003cem\u003eI Am a Camera\u003c\/em\u003e and Liza Minelli in \u003cem\u003eCabaret\u003c\/em\u003e. Isherwood magnificently captures 1931 Berlin: charming, with its avenues and cafés; marvelously grotesque, with its nightlife and dreamers; dangerous, with its vice and intrigue; powerful and seedy, with its mobs and millionaires -- this was the period when Hitler was beginning his move to power. \u003cem\u003eGoodbye to Berlin\u003c\/em\u003e is inhabited by a wealth of characters: the unforgettable and \"divinely decadent\"Sally Bowles; plump Fraulein Schroeder, who considers reducing her Buste relieve her heart palpitations; Peter and Otto, a gay couple struggling to come to terms with their relationship; and the distinguished and doomed Jewish family, the Landauers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIsherwood, Christopher:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eChristopher Isherwood\u003c\/strong\u003e (1904-1986), perhaps the first major openly gay writer to be read extensively by a wider audience, was one of the most distinguished authors of the twentieth century. His literary friendships encompassed such writers as W. H. Auden, E. M. Forster, Stephen Spender, Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, and Somerset Maugham.","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50606874427666,"sku":"9780811220248","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_83f6fb74-ea32-4108-9146-b9f9d2527c8b.jpg?v=1732300812","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/goodbye-to-berlin-9780811220248","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}