This Great Escape: Andrew Steinmetz's Ottawa Book Launch

Thursday, September 19, 2013 - 7:00pm

Raw Sugar Café
692 Somerset St W
Ottawa, ON
K1R 6P4

Join the Ottawa Book Award-winning author Andrew Steinmetz for the launch of This Great Escape: The Case of Michael Paryla. A sequel to Eva's Threepenny Theatre, which was nominated for the Writers' Trust Award in 2009, This Great Escape is the story of an obsessive quest to uncover the life of Steinmetz's distant cousin Michael.

Michael Paryla was a bit actor whose only claim to fame is 57 seconds of uncredited screen time in The Great Escape, the most lavish P.O.W. film Hollywood ever produced. Paryla was a displaced Jew cast as a Gestapo agent; four years after filming he died. In what Taras Grescoe calls "an absorbing meditation on the intersection of life, art, and history," in a style Joel Yanofsky praises as "idiosyncratic and moving," This Great Escape is the memoir of a man seen by millions yet recognized by no one, whose story—from life-in-exile to suspicious death—shines a brilliant spotlight on Hollywood’s great war film.

Admission is free.

This Great Escape: Andrew Steinmetz's Ottawa Book Launch
When: Sept. 19th, 7 p.m
Where: Raw Sugar Café, 692 Somerset St. W., Ottawa

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