The Weather in Berlin By Ward Just 2002 Hard Cover

Description: The Weather In Berlin by Ward Just 2002 Hardcover 305 pagesFor decades, film director Dixon Greenwood has lived the Hollywood life -- the studio intrigues, the abrupt rise and fall of careers, grand aspirations come and gone. Dix's own fame rests on his one great work, SUMMER, 1921, an antiwar classic that has become a cult film. Now he believes he has lost his imagination and genius for reading the times. His audience has vanished. So, on a kind of personal rescue mission, he embarks on a three-month journey to Germany, the birthplace, as he sees it, of the twentieth century. In postwar, post-Wall Berlin, Dix finds the winter skies gray and the cultural climate turbulent. While fellow artists debate politics and art, he discovers that a nostalgic Prussian costume drama is the most popular program on German television. With decidedly mixed feelings, he agrees to direct an episode -- a fateful decision that unexpectedly reunites him with an actress who disappeared from the set of SUMMER, 1921 thirty years before. Their final collaboration takes Dix into the heart of the German century and back to his own imagination. THE WEATHER IN BERLIN showcases Ward Just's unmatched eye for restless Americans abroad. Imbued with the glitter and darkness of both old Hollywood and the new Europe, it is a terrifically atmospheric novel by "one of the most astute writers of American fiction" (New York Times Book Review).Product IdentifiersPublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing CompanyISBN-100618036687ISBN-139780618036684eBay Product ID (ePID)1971607Product Key FeaturesBook TitleWeather in Berlin : a NovelAuthorWard S. JustFormatHardcoverLanguageEnglishTopicPsychological, GeneralPublication Year2002TypeTextbookGenreFictionNumber of Pages320 PagesDimensionsItem Length9in.Item Height0.8in.Item Width6in.Item Weight21.3 OzAdditional Product FeaturesLc Classification NumberPs3560.U75w43 2002Edition DescriptionTeacher's EditionReviews"One of the most astute writers of American fiction." The New York Times Book Review "Just writes...smart, well-crafted narratives -- wise to the ways of the world -- that use fiction to show us how we live." The Los Angeles Times "Just...a virtuoso novelist, never uses two words when one, just the right one, will do." The Seattle Times "Just writes seamlessly, mixing spoken dialogue, interior monologue, and narrative...the story unreels before the reader as in a film." Library Journal "Just has never done anything better." Kirkus Reviews "Just's prose is precise and smooth, A BMW cruising the autobahn." Boston Magazine "[T]he intelligence that suffuses the narrative creates a compelling dynamic in which the historical forces of the 20th century are embodied in human terms." Publishers Weekly "Just's imagination guides us on this journey...it's the stops along the way that count as much as the destinations.

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