The swell season :

Škvorecký, Josef,

The swell season : - London : Hogarth Press, 1983, c1982. - 226 p. ;

Translation of: Prima sezóna. "Chatto fiction"--Jacket.

The swell season begins: a winter's tale --
The swell season picks up: oh, Maytime witch! --
The swell season falters: Charleston in a cage --
The swell season reaches a peak: a view from the tower --
The swell season changes course: a family hotel --
The swell season comes to an end: sad autumn blues.

Danny Smiricky's normal adolescent preoccupation with girls and his passion for jazz are overshadowed by Nazi terrorism in 1940's Czechoslovakia.

0701126736 070113917X (pbk.)


Czechoslovakia -- 1938-1945 -- Fiction.
Czech fiction -- Short stories.
Short stories, Czech.

891.86 / SKV

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