I Was Jack Mortimer

Informationen zum Autor Alexander Lernet-Holenia was born in Vienna in 1897. He served in the Austro-Hungarian army in the First World War and became a protégé of Rainer Maria Rilke. During his life he wrote poetry! novels! plays and was a successful screenwriter. His uneasy relationship with the National Socialist Party resulted in his removal from prominence in 1944! but after the end of the Second World War! he again became a vital figure in Austrian cultural life. He died in 1976. Klappentext A taxi-driver in 1930s Vienna impersonates a murder victim-with unsettling consequences."One doesn't step into anyone's life, not even a dead man's, without having to live it to the end." A taxi-driver in 1930s Vienna impersonates a murder victim, and is caught into a dangerous spiral Zusammenfassung A taxi-driver in 1930s Vienna impersonates a murder victim-with unsettling consequences.

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• Authors: Alexander Lernet-Holenia, Alexander (Author) Lernet-Holenia, Alexander/ Avsey Lernet-Holenia
• Assisted by: Ignat Avsey (Translation), Ignat (Translator (GER)) Avsey (Translation)
• Publisher: Random House USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.09.2015
• EAN: 9781782271154
• ISBN: 978-1-78227-115-4
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: Pushkin Vertigo; Pushkin Vertigo
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945)