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Book Review of Runaway Waltz : A Memoir from Vienna to New York

Runaway Waltz : A Memoir from Vienna to New York
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Biography of a young Jewish boy who leaves his home in Vienna for New York right before the deportment of the large population of Austria's Jews. The author, now a well-known novelest, offers the reader 10 episodes in his rather extraordinary life, from Vienna to London, to New York where he worked as a baker's assistant to his rise as a new young author in the 1960's and 70's.