Private Worlds (Gainham novel)

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Private Worlds
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First edition (UK)
Author Sarah Gainham
Country United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreDrama
Publisher Weidenfeld & Nicolson (UK)
Holt Rinehart (US)
Publication date
1971
Media typePrint
Preceded by A Place in the Country  

Private Worlds is a 1971 novel by the British writer Sarah Gainham. [1] It was the third in her Vienna trilogy following the popular first novel Night Falls on the City . [2]

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Synopsis

Now that the immediate post-war crisis of Vienna has finished, Julia Homburg and her old friend and lover, the journalist Georg Kerenyi, are able to reconstruct their former lives at the same time as a new, independent and democratic Austrian Republic is being formed.

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References

  1. Gainham p.624
  2. Barton p.171
    - Husband & Husband p.297

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