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Christopher and His Kind Christopher Isherwood |
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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. "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 A major figure in twentieth-century fiction and the gay rights movement, Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986) is the author of The Condor and the Cows, Down There on a Visit, Kathleen and Christopher, Lions and Shadows, A Meeting by the River, The Memorial, My Guru and His Disciple, Prater Violet, A Single Man, and The World in the Evening. A selection of his finest writing is collected in Where Joy Resides. 352 pages | 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 | 2001 |
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