The Weather in Berlin: A Novel
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ISBN: 0618340793 / Publisher: Mariner Books, June 2003
Tired of the studio intrigues and glittering lifestyle of Hollywood, film director Dixon Greenwood, creator of a single great work that has become a cult film, heads for postwar Germany to rediscover the meaning in his life and work and becomes involved in the production of a German television program that reunites him with an actress with whom he had worked thirty years before. Reprint.
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<div>In this astute novel of Americans abroad, Ward Just turns his keen eye toward the dark underpinnings of nationalism, fame, and artistic integrity. When a famous Hollywood director travels to post-Wall Germany to rekindle his genius, he is unexpectedly reunited with an actress who mysteriously disappeared from the set of his movie thirty years before. Masterly and atmospheric, The Weather in Berlin explores the subtleties of artistic inspiration, the nature of memory, and the pull of the past.</div>
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