Playing For Time

Fania F nelon with Marcelle Routier; translated from the French by Judith Landry

ISBN 10: 068910796X / ISBN 13: 9780689107962

Published by New York : Atheneum, 1977, c1976., 1977

About this Item

ISBN 068910796X. Hardback. First U.S. Printing. Very Good condition book, with minor bumps and rubs to cover corners and edges, slight dustsoiling and browning to edges of interior pages, in a Very Good condition dustjacket with minor rubs and creases around its edges, some browning to jacket edges. Tight, sound, unmarked copy. Upper corner of front jacket flap clipped.

Seller Inventory # 99131633

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Playing For Time
• Publisher: New York : Atheneum, 1977, c1976.
• Publication Date: 1977
• ISBN 10: 068910796X
• ISBN 13: 9780689107962
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket included
• Signed: No Signature
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biography & Autobiography

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Synopsis

One of the few survivors of the women's orchestra in the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination complex recalls her experiences, those of her fellow musicians, and the ironies and degradations of camp life

From the Back Cover

In 1943, Fania Fenelon was a Paris cabaret singer, a secret member of the Resistance, and a Jew. Captured by the Nazis, she was sent to Auschwitz, and later, Bergen-Belsen. With unnerving clarity and an astonishing ability to find humor where only despair should prevail, the author charts her eleven months as one of "the orchestra girls"; writes of the loves, the laughter, hatreds, jealousies, and tensions that racked this privileged group whose only hope of survival was to make music.