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The Vienna Paradox: A Memoir
The Vienna Paradox A Memoir
Author: Marjorie Perloff
A fascinating memoir of refugee flight and survival, intellectual yet highly personal, by one America's eminent literary critics. The Vienna Paradox is Marjorie Perloff's memoir of growing up in pre-World War II Vienna, her escape to America in 1938 with her upper-middle-class, highly cultured, and largely assimilated Jewish famil...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780811215718
ISBN-10: 0811215717
Publication Date: 5/2004
Pages: 224
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Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Book Type: Paperback
Members Wishing: 2
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Literary/intellectual memoir of a young Viennese girl (from a Jewish assimilated family) who moves to New York shortly after Anschluss (Austrian agreement with Hitler's Germany). Excellent read.


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