Limit search to available items
Book Cover
Book
Author Bonyhady, Tim.

Title Good living street : the fortunes of my Viennese family / Tim Bonyhady
Published Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2011

Copies

Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 MELB  709.2243613 Bon/Gls  AVAILABLE
Description 456 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Summary In 1900 Vienna was one of the most exciting places to live in the world. Its glamorous high society was the envy of Europe, and it was the centre of an exploding arts movement that set the tone for the following century. Bonyhady follows the lives of three generations of women in his family who lived in Vienna, eventually fleeing to escape the Nazis and settling in a small flat in Cremorne
Analysis Arts
Austria
Biography
Family
Gallia family
History
Immigrants
Jews
Notes Also published in New York by Pantheon Books in 2011
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Audience General
Tertiary/Undergraduate
Notes Victorian Premier's Literary Award, 2011
Subject Gallia family -- Art patronage.
Gallia family.
Art patrons -- Austria -- Vienna -- Biography.
Jews -- Austria -- Vienna -- Biography.
SUBJECT Vienna (Austria) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79018895 -- Biography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001237
Genre/Form Biographies.
ISBN 9781742371467 (paperback)