Christopher Isherwood inside out
(2024)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
BIOGRAPHY/ISHERWOOD,C
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024
©2024
©2024
EDITION
First American edition
DESCRIPTION
x, 852 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780374119362, 0374119368 :, 0374119368, 9780374119362
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Son of the British army, heir to the estate (1904-1929) -- Sacred orphan (1915-1923) -- Failed history scholar, published novelist (1923-1929) -- Berlin, sex, politics, and fame (1929-1939) -- Hollywood screenwriter and Hindu monk (1939-1945) -- American apostate (1945-1953) -- The ideal companion : Don Bachardy (1953-1961) -- Existential Isherwood : the outsider (1961-1964) -- The animals' golden age (1964-1986)
"A stunningly intimate portrait of the writer and gay cultural icon and of his lifelong search for authenticity"--