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Series
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
216 pages ; 15 cm
Description
Welcome to sunny suburban 1960s Southern California. George is a gay middle-aged English professor, adjusting to solitude after the tragic death of his young partner. He is determined to persist in the routines of his former life. A Single Man follows him over the course of twenty-four hours. Behind his British reserve, tides of grief, rage, and loneliness surge--but what is revealed is a man who loves being alive despite everyday injustices.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"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...
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