title: An Improbable Life: Memoirs
author:  Robert Craft 
description: The great pleasure of reading Craft derives from two sources. First, there's his insatiable and promiscuous appetite for knowledge. . . . He possesses much the same flair for the encyclopedic disquisition as his old Hollywood friend Aldous Huxley. . . . If you like his meticulous and well-stocked mind as much as I do, you'll eventually want to read everything he's written. <br />--Michael Dirda, <i>Washington Post</i><br /><br />The great pleasure of reading Craft derives from two sources. First, there's his insatiable and promiscuous appetite for knowledge. . . . He possesses much the same flair for the encyclopedic disquisition as his old Hollywood friend Aldous Huxley. . . . If you like his meticulous and well-stocked mind as much as I do, you'll eventually want to read everything he's written. <br />Michael Dirda, Washington Post
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  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, organizations, places, events,
  and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or are used
  fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual
  events is purely coincidental.
  
  
  
  
  
  Text copyright © 2018 by B.C. Schiller
  
  
  
  
  
  Translation copyright © 2019 by Annette Charpentier
  
  
  
  
  
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  Previously published as _Böses Geheimnis_ by Edition M in Luxembourg in 2019.
  Translated from German by Annette Charpentier. First published in English by
  Thomas & Mercer in collaboration with Amazon Crossing in 2019.
  
  
  
  
  
  Published by Thomas & Mercer, in collaboration with Amazon Crossing, Seattle
  
  
  
  
  
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