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The World in the Evening Christopher Isherwood |
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The celebrated English writer's first novel about Americans and their values. Against the backdrop of World War II, The World in the Evening charts the emotional development of Stephen Monk, an aimless Englishman living in California. After his second marriage suddenly ends, Stephen finds himself living with a relative in a small Pennsylvania Quaker town, haunted by memories of his prewar affair with a younger man during a visit to the Canary Islands. The world traveler comes to a gradual understanding of himself and of his newly adopted homeland. When first published in 1953, The World in the Evening was notable for its clear-eyed depiction of European and American mores, sexuality, and religion. Today, readers herald Isherwood's frank portrayal of bisexuality and his early appreciation of low and high camp. "By reissuing these books by Christopher Isherwood, the University of Minnesota Press makes them available to a new generation of readers. All of Isherwood's books have a strong autobiographical element, so any one of them connects to the whole of his fascinating life, and no one should have to miss a moment of it." —Don Bachardy "Isherwood is the best prose writer in English." —Gore Vidal A major figure in twentieth-century fiction and the gay rights movement, Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986) is the author of Christopher and His Kind, 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, and A Single Man. A selection of his finest writing is collected in Where Joy Resides. 312 pages | 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 | 1999 |
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$17.95 Paper