Where Joy Resides
A Christopher Isherwood Reader
A selection of Isherwood’s finest writing—now back in print!
Edited by Don Bachardy and James P. White
This collection presents two complete novels, Prater Violet (1945) and A Single Man (1964); episodes from three other novels, Goodbye to Berlin (1939), Down There on a Visit (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).
The late Christopher Isherwood was a writer with exceptional powers of observation. . . . An excellent anthology.
Los Angeles Times
Best known for The Berlin Stories—the inspiration for the Tony and Academy Award–winning musical Cabaret—Christopher Isherwood (1904–1986) was a major figure in twentieth-century fiction and the gay rights movement. This collection presents two complete novels, Prater Violet (1945) and A Single Man (1964); episodes from three other novels, Goodbye to Berlin (1939), Down There on a Visit (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).
The late Christopher Isherwood was a writer with exceptional powers of observation. . . . An excellent anthology.
Los Angeles Times
Excellent.
BookForum
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My Guru and His Disciple
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