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My Guru and His Disciple
My Guru and His Disciple
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Author: Christopher Isherwood Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press Format: Softcover # of Pages: 352 Pub. Date: 2001 ISBN-10: 0816638640 ISBN-13: 9780816638642
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About the Book:
Christopher Isherwood's fascinating account of his thirty-year spiritual quest.
What people say:
"'My Guru and His Disciple' is a sweetly modest and honest portrait of Isherwood's spiritual instructor, Swami Prabhavananda, the Hindu priest who guided Isherwood for some thirty years. It is also a book about the often amusing and sometimes painful counterpoint between worldliness and holiness in Isherwood's own life. Sexual sprees, all-night drinking bouts, a fast car ride with Greta Garbo, script-writing conferences at M-G-M, and intellectual sparring sessions with Bertolt Brecht alternated with nights of fasting at the Vedanta Center and a six-month period of celibacy and sobriety. Seldom has a single man been endowed with such strong drives toward both sensuality and spirituality, abandon and discipline…. In these pages, Isherwood has reinvented the spirit of devotion for the modern reader." — Edmund White, New York Times Book Review
"This book is a humbling tribute to someone who revealed to Isherwood inner grounds for spiritual awareness." — Alan Hollinghurst, New Statesman
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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