The Artificial Silk Girl
Author(s): Irmgard Keun
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.
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General Fields
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- : Penguin UK
- : Penguin
- : April 2019
- : April 2019
- : books
Special Fields
- : Irmgard Keun
- : Paperback