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A Single Man (Film Tie-In Cover) by Christopher Isherwood
28.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
In this brilliantly perceptive novel, a middle aged professor living in California, is alienated from his students by differences in age and nationality, and from the rest of society by his homosexuality. Isherwood explores the depths of the human soul and its ability to triumph over loneliness, alienat ...Show more
Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
17.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
"I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking," are the famous lines on the first page. This a semiautobiographical account of Isherwood's time in 1930s Berlin. Written as a connected series of six short stories the book, first published in 1939, is a brilliant evocation o ...Show more
Liberation, Volume 3: Diaries: 1970-1983 by Christopher Isherwood (New Directions)
16.99 NZD
49.99 (66% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
"A slip of a wild boy: with quick silver eyes," as Virginia Woolf saw him in the 1930s, Christopher Isherwood journeyed and changed with his century, until, by the 1980s, he was celebrated as the finest prose writer in English and the grand old man of gay liberation. In this final volume of his diaries, ...Show more
Lost Years: a Memoir 1945-1951 by Christopher Isherwood
34.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
Christopher Isherwood settled in California in 1939 and spent the war years writing for Hollywood, but by 1945 he had all but ceased to write fiction and abandoned his habit of keeping a diary. Instead he embarked on a life of frantic socialising and drinking. Based on Isherwood's personal memories, thi ...Show more
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