Searching for Schindler
Thomas Keneally
From Town's End Books, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
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From Town's End Books, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
Heritage Bookseller
AbeBooks Member Since 1996
About this Item
First Printing Very good in 1/4 black cloth and yellow paper covered boards with gilt text stamping on the spine. An octavo of 8 1/8 by 5 1/2 inches with a remainder dot on the lower edge of the text block and with the first 58 pages damaged by humidity causing slight wavy feel to the pages, but there is no staining or discoloration. In a near fine, unclipped dust jacket with very modest soiling to the panels. 272 pages of text and illustrated with 16 pages of plates from color and black and white photographs. The story behind the making of the author's award winning book: Schindler's List. Seller Inventory # TB32160
Bibliographic Details
Title: Searching for Schindler
Publisher: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday Publishing, (c2007), New York:
Publication Date: 2007
Binding: Hardcover
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
About this title
This is the captivating story behind Schindler’s List, the Booker Prize–winning book and the Academy Award–winning Spielberg film. Keneally tells the tale of the unlikely encounter that propelled him to write about Oskar Schindler and of the impact of his extraordinary account on people around the world.
Thomas Keneally met Leopold “Poldek” Pfefferberg, the owner of a Beverly Hills luggage shop, in 1981. Poldek, a Polish Jew and a Holocaust survivor, had a tale he wanted the world to know. Charming, charismatic, and persistent, he convinced Keneally to relate the incredible story of “the all-drinking, all-screwing, all-black-marketeering Nazi, Oskar Schindler. But to me he was Jesus Christ.”
Searching for Schindler is the engrossing chronicle of Keneally’s pursuit of one of history’s most fascinating and paradoxical heroes. Traveling throughout the United States, Germany, Israel, Poland, and Austria, Keneally and Poldek interviewed people who had known Schindler and uncovered their indelible memories of the Holocaust. Keneally’s powerful narrative rose quickly to the top of bestseller lists. Steven Spielberg’s magnificent film adaptation went on to fulfill Poldek’s dream of winning “an Oscar for Oskar.” (Keneally’s anecdotes about Spielberg, Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, and other cast members will delight film buffs.)
Written with candor and humor, Seaching for Schindler is an intimate look at Keneally’s growth as a writer and the enormous success of his portrait of Oskar Schindler.
Thomas Keneally has won international acclaim for his novels Schindler's List (the basis for the movie and the winner of the Booker Prize), The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, Confederates, Gossip from the Forest, The Playmaker, Woman of the Inner Sea, A River Town, Office of Innocence, and The Tyrant’s Novel. His most recent works of nonfiction are A Commonwealth of Thieves, The Great Shame, and American Scoundrel. He resides in Sydney, Australia.
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