Albinus, a respectable, middle-aged man and aspiring filmmaker, abandons his wife for a lover half his age: Margot, who wants to become a movie star herself. When Albinus introduces her to Rex, an American movie producer, disaster ensues. What emerges is an elegantly sardonic and irresistibly ironic novel of desire, deceit, and deception, a curious romance set in the film world of Berlin in the 1930s.
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From the Trade Paperback edition.
Laughter in the Dark
Albinus, a respectable, middle-aged man and aspiring filmmaker, abandons his wife for a lover half his age: Margot, who wants to become a movie star herself. When Albinus introduces her to Rex, an American movie producer, disaster ensues. What emerges is an elegantly sardonic and irresistibly ironic novel of desire, deceit, and deception, a curious romance set in the film world of Berlin in the 1930s.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780307787675 |
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Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
Publication date: | 02/16/2011 |
Series: | Vintage International |
Sold by: | Random House |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 304 |
File size: | 544 KB |
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