Mariner Books, June 2003. Trade Paperback. Very Good. used trade paperback edition. lightly shelfworn, corners perhaps slightly bumped. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.

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For 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).

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Bookseller: Magus Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1104874
Title: The Weather in Berlin: A Novel
Author: Ward Just
Format/Binding: Trade Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 0618340793
ISBN 13: 9780618340798
Publisher: Mariner Books
Place of Publication: Wilmington, Massachusetts, U.s.a.
Date Published: June 2003
Pages: 320

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Tight: Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
Trade Paperback: Used to indicate any paperback book that is larger than a mass-market paperback and is often more similar in size to a hardcover...