They ,too ,were wet to some extent ,and only the passport ,wallet and the letters ,which had been in the breast pocket ,had stayed almost dryĪnd what did he find Spooner in this collection from the dead man in his cab
He took the dead man’s belongings out of his pockets and put them out on the table. But who was Jack Mortimer and why is he in Vienna ? and why is he dead ?
and because he Spooner is nervous of what may happen when the body is discovered in his cab. Spooner sees he has a hotel room reserved and thus he decides to assumes the identity of this man ,with out even know who he really is.
He has a girlfriend, but he has fallen for a girl he gave a ride too and tries to find her and to try to catch her eye he drawn into a dark world as a few days late he picks up a ride that ends up dead in his cab this ride turns out to be the Jack Mortimer of the title. The book follows Viennese Taxi driver Fredinad Spooner ,as over course of one November he gets drawn into a strange and dark world. Spooner tries to find the girl he gave a ride to in his cab. Spooner found out from the doormen in Allergasse and from the head waiter of the nearby Cafe Attache ,but in particular from a commissonare who used to sit either on the street corner or in a bar opposite ,under a sign with two white horses that the girl was called Marisabelle Von Raschitz. ĭuring that evening and the next morning. He spent war trying to avoid combat and prison but after the war he grew to be a well Known figure in Austrian culture. He was first called up as he was still a reservist lieutenant and fought in the invasion of Poland but became wary of the Nazis and in 1941 wrote a book called the Blue Hour describe as the only Austrian resistance novel. Alexander Lernet-Holenia was born in 1897 in Vienna ,he fought on the eastern fron in world war One and then in the inter war years became a writer ,he was a protege of the great poet Rainer Maria Rilke. Well on of the best things about Pushkin press and one of the reasons I choose to do a fortnight dedicated to their books is perfectly shown by this Novel originally published in 1933 ,we finally got to read it in English due to this translation. I was Jack Mortimer by Alexander Lernet-Holenia Austrian Fiction Original title Ich was Jack Mortimer Translator – Ignat Avsey Source – Library copy
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