The classic novel on the golden era of film, now back in print!Originally published in 1945, Prater Violet is a stingingly satirical novel about the film industry. It centers around the production of the vacuous fictional melodrama Prater Violet,...
Sammy Mountjoy, artist, rises from poverty and an obscure birth to see his pictures hung in the Tate Gallery. Swept into World War Two, he is taken as a prisoner-of-war, threatened with torture, then locked in a cell of total darkness to wait. He...
Oliver is eighteen and wants to enjoy himself before going to university. But this is the 1920s and he lives in Stilbourne, a small English country town where everyone knows what everyone else is getting up to, and where love, lust and rebellion are...
Феликс Григорьевич Светов (Фридлянд, 28.11.1927 - 2.09.2002) родился в Москве; в 1951 г. закончил Московский университет, филолог. В 1952-54 гг. работал...