Christopher and his kind : 1929-1939
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Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
Edition
Paperback edition.
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 21 cm
Status
Morro Bay Library - Adult Nonfiction - Biography
823.912 ISHERWOOD PBK
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823.912 ISHERWOOD PBK
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Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
Format
Book
Edition
Paperback edition.
Language
English
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"Originally published in 1976, Christopher and His Kind covers the most memorable ten years in the writer's life?from 1928, when Christopher Isherwood left England to spend a week in Berlin and decided to stay there indefinitely, to 1939, when he arrived in America. His friends and colleagues during this time included W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, and E. M. Forster, as well as colorful figures he met in Germany and later fictionalized in his two Berlin novels?and who appeared again, fictionalized to an even greater degree, in I Am a Camera and Cabaret. What most impressed the first readers of this memoir, however, was the candor with which he describes his life in gay Berlin of the 1930s and his struggles to save his companion, a German man named Heinz, from the Nazis. An engrossing and dramatic story and a fascinating glimpse into a little-known world, Christopher and His Kind remains one of Isherwood's greatest achievements."--Amazon.com.
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