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Temporarily out of stock
Title: 1913: The Year Before the Storm
Illustrator: WHITESIDE SHAUN/SEARLE JAMIE (TRANS)
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/08/2014
Imprint: CLERKENWELL
Price: $22.00
Publishing status: Active
A witty yet moving narrative worked up from sketched biographical fragments, 1913 is an intimate vision of a world that is about to change forever…The stuffy conventions of the nineteenth century are receding into the past, and 1913 heralds a new age of unlimited possibility. Kafka falls in love; Louis Armstrong learns to play the trumpet; a young seamstress called Coco Chanel opens her first boutique; Charlie Chaplin signs his first movie contract; and new drugs like cocaine usher in an age of decadence. Yet everywhere there is the premonition of ruin – the number 13 is omnipresent, and in London, Paris and Vienna, artists take the omen and act as if there were no tomorrow. In a Munich hotel lobby, Rilke and Freud discuss beauty and transience; Proust sets out in search of lost time; and while Stravinsky celebrates the Rite of Spring with industrial cacophony, an Austrian postcard painter by the name of Adolf Hitler sells his conventional cityscapes.
ISBN: 9781846689611
Dimension: 198mm X 129mm
Pages: 288