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"A remarkable book, Manon’s World brilliantly evokes an extraordinary set of individuals in an urgent time and place: Austria during and after the First World War. Reidel’s sure hand weaves together the stories of the people surrounding and interacting with Manon. The result is a dazzling narrative that transports us to a lost world peopled by some of the remarkable characters in recent history. A story so compelling it is hard to put down." -- Mary Dearborn, biographer and author
"Everyone in 1930s Vienna seemed to be agreed that Manon Gropius was an angel... Her stepfather was the poet, playwright and novelist Franz Werfel. She died at eighteen of polio and its complications. And she was not an angel. The figure who emerges in James Reidel's impressionistic biography is altogether less exalted and far more ordinary." * Times Literary Supplement *

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      Publisher: Seagull Books London Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 17/05/2022
      ISBN13: 9780857427496, 978-0857427496
      ISBN10: 0857427490
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      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      "A remarkable book, Manon’s World brilliantly evokes an extraordinary set of individuals in an urgent time and place: Austria during and after the First World War. Reidel’s sure hand weaves together the stories of the people surrounding and interacting with Manon. The result is a dazzling narrative that transports us to a lost world peopled by some of the remarkable characters in recent history. A story so compelling it is hard to put down." -- Mary Dearborn, biographer and author
      "Everyone in 1930s Vienna seemed to be agreed that Manon Gropius was an angel... Her stepfather was the poet, playwright and novelist Franz Werfel. She died at eighteen of polio and its complications. And she was not an angel. The figure who emerges in James Reidel's impressionistic biography is altogether less exalted and far more ordinary." * Times Literary Supplement *

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