{"product_id":"9780811220255","title":"Goodbye to Berlin","description":"\u003cp\u003eIsherwood's classic story of Berlin in the 1930s - and the inspiration for \u003ci\u003eCabaret\u003c\/i\u003e - now in a stand-alone edition.\u003c\/p\u003e First published in 1934, \u003ci\u003eGoodbye to Berlin\u003c\/i\u003e has been popularized on stage and screen by Julie Harris in \u003ci\u003eI Am a Camera\u003c\/i\u003e and Liza Minelli in \u003ci\u003eCabaret\u003c\/i\u003e. Isherwood magnificently captures 1931 Berlin: charming, with its avenues and cafés; marvelously grotesque, with its nightlife and dreamers; dangerous, with its vice and intrigue; powerful and seedy, with its mobs and millionaires — this was the period when Hitler was beginning his move to power. \u003ci\u003eGoodbye to Berlin\u003c\/i\u003e is inhabited by a wealth of characters: the unforgettable and “divinely decadent”Sally Bowles; plump Frau¨lein Schroeder, who considers reducing her Bu¨steto relieve her heart palpitations; Peter and Otto, a gay couple struggling to come to terms with their relationship; and the distinguished and doomed Jewish family, the Landauers.","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079488389360,"sku":"9780811220255","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780811220255_p0.jpg?v=1763747158","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780811220255","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}