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Item Details
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CITY OF ANGELS: OR, THE OVERCOAT OF DR. FREUD
A NOVEL |
| By: |
Christa Wolf |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£18.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0374269351 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780374269357 |
| Publisher: |
FARRAR, STRAUS & GIROUX INC |
| Pub. date: |
22 February, 2013 |
| Pages: |
336 |
| Description: |
Three years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the author began to sort through her newly declassified Stasi files. Known for her defiance and outspokenness, she was not especially surprised to discover forty-two volumes of documents collected by the East German secret police. This book is based on the year she spent in LA after these revelations. |
| Synopsis: |
Three years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the writer Christa Wolf began to sort through her newly declassified Stasi files. Known for her defiance and outspokenness, Wolf was not especially surprised to discover forty-two volumes of documents collected by the East German secret police. But what was surprising was a thin green folder whose contents told an unfamiliar - and disturbing - story: in the early 1960s. Wolf herself had been an informant for the Communist government. And yet, forty years on, she had absolutely no recollection of it. Wolf's extraordinary autobiographical final novel is an account of what it was like to reckon with such a shocking discovery. Based on the year she spent in Los Angeles after these explosive revelations, "City of Angels" is at once a powerful examination of memory and a surprisingly funny and touching exploration of L.A., a city strikingly different from any Wolf had ever visited. Even as she reflects on the burdens of twentieth-century history, Wolf describes the pleasures of driving a Geo Metro down Wilshire Boulevard and watching episodes of Star Trek late at night.Rich with philosophical insights, personal revelations, and vivid descriptions of a diverse city and its citizens, "City of Angels" is a profoundly humane and disarmingly honest novel - and a powerful conclusion to a remarkable career in letters. |
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US |
| Imprint: |
Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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