About the Book:

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Where Joy Resides is an anthology of the finest writing by Christopher Isherwood.

Best known for The Berlin Stories – the inspiration for the Tony and Academy Award–winning musical Cabaret – Christopher Isherwood was a major figure in twentieth-century fiction and the gay rights movement. Where Joy Resides is the perfect introduction to the author's essential writings.

This collection presents two complete novels, Prater Violet, a stinging satire about the film industry (1945) and A Single Man, his favorite among his novels (1964); episodes from three other novels, Goodbye to Berlin, based on his experiences in Germany in the 1930s under the Nazis (1939), Down There on a Visit tells the vivid stories of Isherwood's life (1962), and Lions and Shadows (1938); and excerpts from his nonfiction works, Exhumations (1966), Kathleen and Frank (1971), and My Guru and His Disciple (1980).

What people say:

"The late Christopher Isherwood was a writer with exceptional powers of observation. An excellent anthology." — Los Angeles Times

"Excellent." — BookForum

"Isherwood is the best prose writer in English." — Gore Vidal

About the Authors:

Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986) was a British-born American writer who worked in many genres, including fiction, drama, film, travel, and autobiography. He was born in Manchester, England, and lived in Berlin from 1929 to 1933 and immigrated to the United States in 1939. A major figure in twentieth-century fiction and the gay rights movement, he was the author of nine novels, four volumes of autobiography, plays, film scripts, and travel books. His Berlin novels remained popular for half a century and are considered classic descriptions of the Nazi period.

Don Bachardy, Isherwood's longtime partner, is a painter and writer living in Santa Monica, California. His books include Last Drawings of Christopher Isherwood (1991) and Stars in My Eyes (2000).

James P. White is an American novelist who has taught creative writing at UCLA, the University of Southern California, and the University of South Alabama. He is the co-founder and former executive director of the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, which supports writers and preserves Isherwood's literary legacy.