Goodbye to Berlin

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The two novels are set in Jazz Age Berlin between 1930 and 1933 on the cusp of Adolf Hitler's ascent to power. There, he lived among a crowd of misfits, who formed the basis for the likes of the ambitiously bright-eyed Sally Bowles and the provocative Master of Ceremonies, who was played by Joel Grey in the 1972 film (and who beat Al Pacino, James Caan and Robert Duvall to the best supporting actor Oscar).

Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood - Penguin Books

While Ross recovered from the abortion procedure, the political situation rapidly deteriorated in Germany.The real Isherwood, though not without many sympathetic qualities, was petty, selfish and supremely egotistical. When he visits Sally at the hospital, the hospital staff assume he is Sally's impregnator and despise him for forcing her to have an abortion. In 2010, Time chose the collection as one of the 100 Best English-language works of the 20th century.

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She was dressed in black silk, with a small cape over her shoulders and a little cap like a page-boy's stuck jauntily on one side of her head.

They meet a ferret-faced Nazi enthusiast who says types like Otto can’t be reformed but should be sent to a labour camp. The Kit Kat Club is no longer a home for society's rejects and rebels; it has become the toy of fascism.