Fiction of Gay Interest

A Single Man
Christopher Isherwood
Publisher: Penguin
Harmondsworth, UK

Year


 		1969       first publ: 1964
Cover / size: paperback / h 18.1 cm * w 11 cm / 144 pp

Dustjacket?   n/a

ISBN: n/a

Arbery Ref:   000269

Condition Good

Slight damage to cover in various places, plus discolouring, particularly of spine. Ink inscriptions on pre-title page. Pages discoloured as normal with book of this age and quality. Spine unbroken, binding tight and apparently unread. Very rare example of this title in this edition.

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Isherwood: A Single Man






Plot / Content:                              Rating: G

"When Jim was killed in a car crash George suddenly came face to face with the lonely likfe of the aging single man. Everything that was young and interesting on the Californian campus passed him by. So he decided to have one last fatal, drunken thrash
"Christopher Isherwood writes in a style that is a complete breakaway from the objective reportage of [his earlier works] I am a Camera and Mr Norris Changes Trains. With devastating candour he strips away the protective skins of the lonely, frightened, homosexual, single man."
(from the cover)



Background / Biography:

A Single Man appeared in late 2009 as Tom Ford's first film
Isherwood (1904 - 1986) was born in the UK but spent most of his life in the United States. The author of over thirty books, he is best known as the writer-narrator of the books that were adapted for the Liza Minnelli film Cabaret. Wikipedia entry




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