{"product_id":"good-living-street-the-fortunes-of-my-viennese-family-9781743319581","title":"Good Living Street: The Fortunes of My Viennese","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1900 Vienna was one of the most exciting places to live in the world. Its glamorous high society was the envy of Europe, and it was the centre of an exploding arts movement that set the tone for the following century. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTim Bonyhady's family were leading patrons of the arts in fin de siècle Vienna: Gustav Klimt painted his great-grandmother's portrait, Josef Hoffmann designed their lavish residence and Gustav and Alma Mahler were close acquaintances.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eGood Living Street \u003c\/i\u003eBonyhady follows the lives of three generations of women in his family in an intimate account of fraught relationships, romance, and business highs and lows. They enjoyed a lifestyle of unimaginable luxury and privilege until the rise of Nazism made their existence in Austria untenable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1938, as Kristallnacht was raging, his family fled Vienna for a small flat in Australia, taking with them the best private collection of art and design to escape the Nazis. As they remade their lives as refugees, the past was rarely discussed and fifty years passed before Tim discovered the remarkable arc of his family's fortunes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA glittering family saga of privilege and tragedy. * Sunday Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eThis is a deeply affecting portrait of a family and the way that memory is held through objects and art. It is a remarkable book. -- Edmund de Waal, author of THE HARE WITH AMBER EYES\u003cbr\u003eSo rich in texture, so full of artistic and visual detail, that a whole lost central European world, and particularly its art, architecture and music, comes alive on the page. * The Spectator *\u003cbr\u003eRich and enthralling -- Alexander Waugh\u003cbr\u003eA captivating tour-de-force. * Art Monthly *\u003cbr\u003etells a riveting three-generational family story without sentimentality that, because of the meticulousness of the research, displays a whole society to us, with habits, lifestyles, attitudes and aspirations so different from ours... It is essentially an essay on the human spirit, with all its angularities and complexities. * Australian Book Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFamily TreeIntroductionI. HERMINEKlimtGodGas-LightsFamilyGalaPicturesRoomsII. GRETLDiariesTangoLoveWarHoffmannDeathSexMarriageIII. ANNELOREMemoryAustro-FascismAnschlussVisasSubterfugeLossCaptureIV. ANNE1939AliensCorrespondenceEricReturnDispersalRestitutionIdentityNotesAcknowledgementsIndex","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51585900183895,"sku":"9781743319581","price":19.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781743319581.jpg?v=1756489692","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/good-living-street-the-fortunes-of-my-viennese-family-9781743319581","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}