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Christopher and His Kind
Christopher and His Kind
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Author: Christopher Isherwood Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press Format: Softcover # of Pages: 352 Pub. Date: 2001 ISBN-10: 0816638632 ISBN-13: 9780816638635
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About the Book:
Christopher Isherwood's most celebrated and revealing memoir, now back in print!
Originally published in 1976, Christopher and His Kind covers the most memorable ten years in the writer's life-from 1929, when 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 - 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.
What people say:
"Indispensable for admirers of this truly masterly writer." — New York Times Book Review
"The best prose writer in English…. The later Isherwood is even better than the early cameraman." — Gore Vidal
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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