04106cam a2200889 4500 411023373 TxAuBib 20191208120000.0 ||||||s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781681372754 1681372754 B07CR2CQ5Y Amazon b8483801-570d-4a49-adf6-344f38e803fc OverDrive (Reserve ID) 576962 4197769 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Viertel, Salka. The Kindness of Strangers [Libby eBook]. New York Review Books, 2019. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2242kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. biographies of famous people. celebrity autobiographies. gifts for movie lovers. music biographies. nonfiction books. autobiographies. celebrity books. biography books. Entertainment. screenwriting. World History. Autobiography. memoir books. biographies. Pop Culture. film making. movie books. nerdy gifts. Nonfiction. Creativity. film books. movie book. celebrity. Biography. character. Hollywood. broadway. Theater. fashion. Writing. Theatre. Memoirs. actors. Movies. Cinema. Comedy. memoir. movie. Drama. Music. films. Film. art. HTML:<b>A memoir about showbiz in the early 20th century that travels from the theaters of Vienna, Prague, and Berlin, to Hollywood during the golden age, complete with encounters with Franz Kafka, Albert Einstein, and Greta Garbo along the way.</b><br /> Salka Viertel's autobiography tells of a brilliant, creative, and well-connected woman's pilgrimage through the darkest years of the twentieth century, a journey that would take her from a remote province of the Austro-Hungarian Empire to Hollywood. <i>The Kindness of Strangers</i> is, to quote the <i>New Yorker</i> writer S. N. Behrman, "a very rich book. It provides a panorama of the dissolving civilizations of the twentieth century. In all of them the author lived at the apex of their culture and artistic aristocracies. Her childhood . . . is an entrancing idyll. In Berlin, in Prague, in Vienna, there appears Karl Kraus, Kafka, Rilke, Robert Musil, Schoenberg, Einstein, Alban Berg. There is the suffering and disruption of the First World War and the suffering and agony after it, which is described with such intimacy and vividness that you endure these terrible years with the author. Then comes the migration to Hollywood, where Salka's house on Maybery Road becomes a kind of Pantheon for the gathered artists, musicians, and writers. It seems to me that no one has ever described Hollywood and the life of writers there with such verve.". Biography & Autobiography. Performing Arts. Nonfiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2020-01-18 22:00:03. Weschler, Lawrence. Rifkind, Donna. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=b8483801-570d-4a49-adf6-344f38e803fc&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=b8483801-570d-4a49-adf6-344f38e803fc&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=b8483801-570d-4a49-adf6-344f38e803fc&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) TXMLR