A Single Man (Film Tie-In Cover)

Author(s): Christopher Isherwood

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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, alienation and loss.


A Single Man is an exclusive Vintage Classic that has been made into a film starring Julianne Moore and Colin Firth and directed by Tom Ford. First published 1964.

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A Single Man is an exclusive Vintage Classic that has been made into a film starring Julianne Moore and Colin Firth and directed by Tom Ford. 19970421

Christopher Isherwood was born in 1904. He began to write at university and later moved to Berlin, where he gave English lessons to support himself. He witnessed first hand the rise to power of Hitler and the Nazi party in Germany and some of his best works, such as Mr. Norris Changes Trains and Goodbye to Berlin, draw on these experiences. He created the character of Sally Bowles, later made famous as the heroine of the musical Cabaret. Isherwood travelled with W.H Auden to China in the late 1930s before going with him to America in 1939. He died on 4 January 1986.

General Fields

  • : 9780099548829
  • : CCV
  • : Vintage Classics
  • : 0.0
  • : December 2009
  • : 198mm X 130mm X 11mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Christopher Isherwood
  • : Paperback
  • : 10-Mar
  • : 823.912
  • : 160