Rent Goodbye to Berlin

Synopsis

Isherwood's classic story of Berlin in the 1930s - and the inspiration for emCabaret/em - now in a stand-alone edition./strong/First published in 1934, emGoodbye to Berlin/em has been popularized on stage and screen by Julie Harris in emI Am a Camera/em and Liza Minelli in emCabaret/em. Isherwood magnificently captures 1931 Berlin: charming, with its avenues and cafes; 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. emGoodbye to Berlin/em is inhabited by a wealth of characters: the unforgettable and "divinely decadent"Sally Bowles; plump Fraülein Schroeder, who considers reducing her Büsteto 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.

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