American in Vienna

Resource Information

The work American in Vienna represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Indiana State Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

American in Vienna

Statement of responsibility

Chip Wagar

Creator

• Wagar, Chip

Subject

• Immigrants -- United States -- Fiction
• World War, 1914-1918 -- Fiction
• Americans -- Austria -- Fiction
• trueFranz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria, 1863-1914 -- Assassination
• Emigration and immigration -- Fiction
• Habsburg, House of
• Assassination -- Fiction
• Austria -- Fiction

Genre

• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

"Andy Bishop's quest begins promisingly when he leaves Columbus, Ohio, in 1914 after graduating from the University of Notre Dame. In Austria-Hungary, his goals are threefold: make contact with distant Austrian relatives, practice his nascent journalistic skills, and discover why his aristocratic ancestor, Matthias zu Windischgrätz, immigrated to America so long ago. The scenery changes drastically as Andy witnesses the last stand of imperial Austrian society. He arrives just three weeks before the assassination of the kaiser's nephew, the Habsburg Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and his wife, Sophie. This event sparks the fateful slide toward world war and chaos for both family and friends. Andy's fateful decision to remain in the doomed Habsburg Empire after the war begins--and his irresistible attraction to a young Austrian countess--lead him to Budapest, Rome, and finally Paris, as Europe is convulsed by the greatest war since the defeat of Napoleon"--Back cover

Cataloging source

YDXCP

Index

no index present

LC call number

DB87

LC item number

.W34 2011

Literary form

fiction

Target audience

adult