Marlene : a novel
Gortner, C. W.2017
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Raised in genteel poverty after the First World War, Maria Magdalena Dietrich dreams of a life on the stage. When a budding career as a violinist is cut short, the willful teenager vows to become a singer, trading her family's proper, middle-class society for the free-spirited, louche world of Weimar Berlin's cabarets and drag balls. With her sultry beauty, smoky voice, seductive silk cocktail dresses, and androgynous tailored suits, Marlene performs to packed houses and becomes entangled in a series of stormy love affairs that push the boundaries of social convention. For the beautiful, desirous Marlene, neither fame nor marriage and motherhood can cure her wanderlust.
Main title:
Marlene : a novel / C.W. Gortner.
Author:
Gortner, C. W., author
Imprint:
New York : William Morrow Paperbacks, 2017.
Collation:
432 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:
9780062406071 (pbk)
Dewey class:
813.6G
LC class:
PS3607.O78
Local class:
AFPBK
Language:
English
BRN:
1861945
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