Word: palastanga
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Verdict occurs in Swiss and Austrian hospitals. For one thing, the disease is now under control. Also, the book often dips back into "preverdict" times. There are three long, notable set pieces-a jet-set party in a ski chalet; an account of the boyhood of David Palastanga, Knef's husband, in London's East End; and a chronicle of a nightclub tour a few years ago in which she sang and Palastanga did just about everything else. They are all funny, mercilessly observed scenes, full of irony and incongruity...
...GIFT HORSE by Hildegard Knef. Translated from the German by David Cameron Palastanga. 384 pages. McGraw-Hill...
| 1 |