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This Great Escape: The Case of Michael Paryla
Andrew Steinmetz
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Description for This Great Escape: The Case of Michael Paryla
Paperback. Great escapes meet greater escapism: how the life of a displaced Jewish actor illuminates the 1963 Hollywood blockbuster. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: APB; APF; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 312.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE $60,000 HILARY WESTON WRITERS TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTION "What the hell kind of great escape is this? No one escapes!" --L.B. Mayer, on the 1963 film He had fifty-seven seconds of screen time in the most lavish POW film Hollywood ever produced. He was blond. A Gestapo agent. Sauntering down the aisles of a speeding train, he speaks in terse German to Richard Attenborough, Gordon Jackson, David McCallum. The film is The Great Escape (by John Sturges, starring Steve McQueen); the actor, though uncredited, is Michael Paryla. He was part Jewish. Shortly after filming he ... Read more
SHORTLISTED FOR THE $60,000 HILARY WESTON WRITERS TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTION "What the hell kind of great escape is this? No one escapes!" --L.B. Mayer, on the 1963 film He had fifty-seven seconds of screen time in the most lavish POW film Hollywood ever produced. He was blond. A Gestapo agent. Sauntering down the aisles of a speeding train, he speaks in terse German to Richard Attenborough, Gordon Jackson, David McCallum. The film is The Great Escape (by John Sturges, starring Steve McQueen); the actor, though uncredited, is Michael Paryla. He was part Jewish. Shortly after filming he ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Biblioasis
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
312g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Emeryville, Canada
ISBN
9781927428337
SKU
V9781927428337
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About Andrew Steinmetz
Born in Montreal, Andrew Steinmetz is the author of a memoir (Wardlife: The Apprenticeship of a Young Writer as a Hospital Clerk) and two collections of poetry (Histories and Hurt Thyself). His novel, Eva's Threepenny Theatre, tells the story of his great-aunt Eva who performed in one of first touring productions of Bertolt Brecht's masterpiece The Threepenny Opera, in 1928. ... Read more
Reviews for This Great Escape: The Case of Michael Paryla
Praise for This Great Escape "[An] idiosyncratic mix of travelogue, family memoir, and elliptical musing ... pithy ... The loving tribute that Steinmetz offers [Paryla] is that he now lives on, not merely in his fleeting scene in a Hollywood movie, but in his cousin's nimble, evocative prose."
The Brooklyn Rail "[A] touching biography ... Paryla was never a household name ... Read more
The Brooklyn Rail "[A] touching biography ... Paryla was never a household name ... Read more