The Perfect American
by Jungk, peter stephan
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- ISBN 10
- 1590511158
- ISBN 13
- 9781590511152
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Peter Stephan Jungk Peter Stephan Jungk was born in Los Angeles, raised in several European cities, and now lives in Paris. A former screenwriting fellow of the American Film Institute, he is the author of eight books, including the acclaimed biography Franz Werfel: A Life from Prague to Hollywood (1990) and the novels Tigor (Handsel Books, 2004), a finalist for the British Foreign Book Award, and The Perfect American (Handsel Books, 2004), a fictional biography of Walt Disney's last months, which had its premiere as an opera by Philip Glass at Madrid's Teatro Real in January 2013. Michael Hofmann Michael Hofmann has translated Bertolt Brecht, Joseph Roth, Patrick S, Herta Mueller, and Franz Kafka. He won the Translators' Association's Schlegel-Tieck Prize twice in 1988 for his adaptation of The Double Bass by Patrick S (1987), and in 1993 for his rendering of Wolfgang Koeppen's Death in Rome (1992). In 1999 he won the PEN/Book of the Month Club Translation Prize for The String of Pearls . His translation of his father's novel The Film Explainer , by Gert Hofmann, won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 1995. He has written and translated more than 35 books, winning eight awards for his translations and his poetry.
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- St. Vinnie's Charitable Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- I-04-4093
- Title
- The Perfect American
- Author
- Jungk, peter stephan
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1590511158
- ISBN 13
- 9781590511152
- Publisher
- Other Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- May 2004
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