Albinus, a respectable, middle-aged man and aspiring filmmaker, abandons his wife for a lover half his age: Margot, who wants to become a movie star herself. When Albinus introduces her to Rex, an American movie producer, disaster ensues. What emerges is an elegantly sardonic and irresistibly ironic novel of desire, deceit, and deception, a curious romance set in the film world of Berlin in the 1930s.
- ISBN10 081121186X
- ISBN13 9780811211864
- Publish Date 17 September 1991 (first published 27 November 1986)
- Publish Status Inactive
- Out of Print 12 November 2007
- Publish Country US
- Imprint New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Edition 2nd Revised edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 294
- Language English