A Single Man - Softcover

Christopher Isherwood

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0816638624 ISBN 13: 9780816638628

Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2001

Synopsis

A professor at a California university in the 1960s must deal with loneliness and a sense of disconnection after the death of his longtime partner.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

From Publishers Weekly:

Isherwood's resurrected classic—now a feature film—takes us to Southern California in the 1960s and into one day in the life of George, a gay, middle-aged English professor, struggling to cope with his young lover's tragic death. Simon Prebble's voice is a perfect conduit for Isherwood's lyricism, and he assumes the role of George so naturally and with such raw feeling that listeners will feel as if they are hearing the words straight from the protagonist himself, so beautifully does Prebble create George's reserve behind which surge tides of grief, rage, and bitter loneliness. A University of Minnesota paperback. (Jan.)
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About this edition

• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0816638624
• ISBN 13: 9780816638628
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 186