{"product_id":"this-great-escape-the-case-of-michael-paryla-paperback-1","title":"This Great Escape: The Case of Michael Paryla - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAndrew Steinmetz\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHORTLISTED FOR THE $60,000 HILARY WESTON WRITERS TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTION\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"What the hell kind of great escape is this? No one escapes!\"\u003cbr\u003e--L.B. Mayer, on the 1963 film \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHe had fifty-seven seconds of screen time in the most lavish POW film Hollywood ever produced. He was blond. A Gestapo agent. Sauntering down the aisles of a speeding train, he speaks in terse German to Richard Attenborough, Gordon Jackson, David McCallum. The film is \u003ci\u003eThe Great Escape\u003c\/i\u003e (by John Sturges, starring Steve McQueen); the actor, though uncredited, is Michael Paryla. He was part Jewish. Shortly after filming he died. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThis Great Escape\u003c\/i\u003e, Andrew Steinmetz tenderly reconstructs the life of a man seen by millions yet recognized by no one, whose history--from childhood flight from Nazism to suspicious death twenty years later--intersects bitterly, ironically, and often movingly with the plot of Sturges's great war film. Splicing together documentary materials with correspondence, diary entries, and Steinmetz's own travel journal, \u003ci\u003eThis Great Escape\u003c\/i\u003e does more than reconstruct the making of a cinema classic: it is a poignant and moving testament to the complexity of human experience, a portrait of a family for whom acting was a matter of survival, and proof that our most anonymous, uncredited, and undocumented moments can brush against the zeitgeist of world history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in Montreal, Andrew Steinmetz is the author of a memoir (\u003ci\u003eWardlife: The Apprenticeship of a Young Writer as a Hospital Clerk\u003c\/i\u003e) and two collections of poetry (\u003ci\u003eHistories\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHurt Thyself\u003c\/i\u003e). His novel, \u003ci\u003eEva's Threepenny Theatre\u003c\/i\u003e, tells the story of his great-aunt Eva who performed in one of first touring productions of Bertolt Brecht's masterpiece \u003ci\u003eThe Threepenny Opera\u003c\/i\u003e, in 1928. An unusual fiction about memoir, \u003ci\u003eEva's Threepenny Theatre\u003c\/i\u003e won the 2009 City of Ottawa Book Award and was a finalist for the 2009 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Steinmetz is also the founding editor of Esplanade Books, the fiction imprint at Véhicule Press.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 15, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hilary Weston Prize for Nonfiction (2013)\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47193528205561,"sku":"9781927428337","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/0BZNbYml8L9781927428337_7416109e-6973-4224-8990-e6f16fb09816.webp?v=1767906305","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/this-great-escape-the-case-of-michael-paryla-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}