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Why Do You Wear a Cheap Watch?

Paperback • 2018 • 1. edition

Why Do You Wear a Cheap Watch?

By Rudolf Ditzen

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About the book

'It was what we call in the trade a potato...' Tales of low-lifes and grifters trying to make ends meet in pre-War Germany.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and dis...Show more

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9780241339244

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Published year

2018

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1

Original title

Why Do You Wear a Cheap Watch?

Format

Paperback

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