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A Single Man
A Single Man
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Author: Christopher Isherwood Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press Format: Softcover # of Pages: 192 Pub. Date: 2001 ISBN-10: 08166-38624 ISBN-13: 9780816638628
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About the Book:
Christopher Isherwood's favorite of his own novels.
When A Single Man was originally published, it shocked many by its frank, sympathetic, and moving portrayal of a gay man in midlife. George, the protagonist, is adjusting to life on his own after the sudden death of his partner, and determines to persist in the routines of his daily life; the course of A Single Man spans twenty-four hours in an ordinary day. An Englishman and a professor living in suburban Southern California, he is an outsider in every way, and his internal reflections and interactions with others reveal a man who loves being alive despite everyday injustices and loneliness. Wry, suddenly manic, constantly funny, surprisingly sad, this novel catches the texture of life itself.
In 2008, fashion designer, Tom Ford directed a film adaptation of the novel. The film, stars Colin Firth as George and Julianne Moore as his friend, Charley (Charlotte).
What people say:
"A testimony to Isherwood's undiminished brilliance as a novelist." — Anthony Burgess
"An absolutely devastating, unnerving, brilliant book." — Stephen Spender
"Just as his Prater Violet is the best novel I know about the movies, Isherwood's A Single Man, published in 1964, is one of the first and best novels of the modern gay liberation movement." — Edmund White
About the Author:
A British-born American writer, Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986) was a major figure in twentieth-century fiction and the gay rights movement. He worked in many genres, including fiction, drama, film, travel, and autobiography. |
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