Pepys of the bohemian quarter

New York Sun

The best prose writer in English

- Gore Vidal,

Indispensable for admirers of this truly masterly writer

New York Times

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<i>Christopher and His Kind </i>is written with the lucidity, the intelligence, and the wit that we have come to expect from Isherwood at his best

New Statesman

Christopher Isherwood is back in vogue

Independent

That young man holds the future of the English novel in his hands

- Somerset W. Maugham,

In November 1929, Christopher Isherwood - determined to become a 'permanent foreigner' - packed a rucksack and two suitcases and left England on a one-way ticket for Berlin. With incredible candour and wit, Isherwood recalls the decadence of Berlin's night scene and his route to sexual liberation. As the Nazis rise to power, Isherwood describes his dramatic struggle to save his partner Heinz from persecution.
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In November 1929, Christopher Isherwood - determined to become a 'permanent foreigner' - packed a rucksack and two suitcases and left England on a one-way ticket for Berlin. With incredible candour and wit, Isherwood recalls the decadence of Berlin's night scene and his route to sexual liberation.
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Isherwood's candid memoir of his life in 1930s Berlin. A seminal book of gay liberation which made him the grand old man of the movement.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780099561071
Publisert
2013
Utgiver
Vendor
Vintage Classics
Vekt
267 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
130 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, P, U, 01, 06, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

Om bidragsyterne

Christopher Isherwood was born in 1904. He began to write at university and later moved to Berlin, where he gave English lessons to support himself. He witnessed first hand the rise to power of Hitler and the Nazi party in Germany and some of his best works, such as Mr. Norris Changes Trains and Goodbye to Berlin, draw on these experiences. He created the character of Sally Bowles, later made famous as the heroine of the musical Cabaret. Isherwood travelled with W.H Auden to China in the late 1930s before going with him to America in 1939. He died on 4 January 1986. His novel A Single Man was recently made into an award-winning film by Tom Ford, starring Colin Firth and Julianne Moore.