Group portrait with lady
Record details
- ISBN: 9781935554967 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 1935554964 (electronic bk.)
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Physical Description:
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1 online resource (452 p.) - Publisher: Brooklyn, N.Y. : Melville House, [2011].
Content descriptions
General Note: | Translated from the German. Previously published: New York : McGraw-Hill, 1973. With new afterword by William T. Vollmann. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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Genre: | Historical fiction. Electronic books. |
Electronic resources
Summary:
ia a series of tense interviews, an unnamed narrator uncovers the story--past and present--of the enigmatic Leni Pfeiffer, a struggling war widow. At the center of her struggle is her effort to prevent the demolition of her Cologne apartment building, a fight in which she is joined by a motley group of neighbors. Along with her illegitimate son, Lev, she becomes the nexus of a countercultural group rebelling against Germany's dehumanizing past under the Nazis ... and what looks to be an equally dehumanizing future under capitalism.