A Single Man

Author: Isherwood, Christopher

Brand: Vintage Classics

Edition: Film Tie-In

Binding: Paperback

Number Of Pages: 160

Release Date: 04-02-2010

Details: Product Description
In this brilliantly perceptive novel, a middle aged professor living in California is alienated from his students by differences in age and nationality, and from the rest of society by his homosexuality. Isherwood explores the depths of the human soul and its ability to triumph over loneliness, alienation and loss.
Review
His key postwar work. A quarter-century ahead of its time in its portrayal of a quotidian homosexual life, it inspired a generation of gay writers in Britain and the US ―
Independent

This mix of humour and stoicism in the face of pent-up grief is essential Isherwood ―
Guardian

His own highly personal form of fiction [is one] in which simple sentences strike a note of great intimacy with the reader as if to a close personal friend, and a sense of total honesty is sought. This style, witty, observant, nostalgic, exact, was Isherwood's great contribution to modern literature ―
Financial Times

He had dazzling talents as a writer. His literary production was pre-eminent for its wit, humour, charm of style and narrative skill...
A Single Man can be almost considered as his masterpiece -- John Lehmann ―
Guardian

Very sad and yet at times wildly funny -- The Daily Telegraph
About the Author
Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986) was one of the most celebrated writers of his generation. He left Cambridge without graduating, briefly studied medicine and then turned to writing his first novels,
All the Conspirators and
The Memorial. Between 1929 and 1939 he lived mainly abroad, spending four years in Berlin and writing the novels
Mr Norris Changes Trains and
Goodbye to Berlin on which the musical
Cabaret was based. He moved to America in 1939, becoming a US citizen in 1946, and wrote another five novels, including
Down There on a Visit and
A Single Man, a travel book about South America and a biography of the Indian mystic Ramakrishna. In the late 1960s and '70s he turned to autobiographical works:
Kathleen and Frank,
Christopher and His Kind,
My Guru and His Disciple and
October, one month of his diary with drawings by Don Bachardy.

EAN: 9780099548829

Package Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.4 x 0.5 inches

Languages: English