Isherwood: A Life Revealed - Rilegato

Parker, Peter

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ISBN 10: 1400062497 ISBN 13: 9781400062492

Casa editrice: Random House Inc, 2004

Riassunto

A definitive portrait of the acclaimed twentieth-century writer chronicles the life and times of Christopher Isherwood, discussing his aristocratic English roots, his literary endeavors, his relationships with family and lovers, and his diverse roles as dramatist, reporter, travel writer, pacifist, Hollywood screenwriter, monk, and leader of the gay liberation movement. 25,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

“This is the major biography that Isherwood deserves–a thorough look at the details of his complex itinerary, geographical, artistic and spiritual. It is a lively, informed account of his milieu and the interweaving of his life with those of Auden and Spender and Upward. . . . Parker manages all this toing and froing with acrobatic aplomb, lending any given episode neither too much nor too little weight.”
–EDMUND WHITE, The Times Literary Supplement

L'autore:

PETER PARKER is the author of The Old Lie: The Great War and the Public-School Ethos and a biography of J. R. Ackerley. He is the editor of A Reader’s Guide to the Twentieth-Century Novel and A Reader’s Guide to Twentieth-Century Writers. He is an associate editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and writes about books and gardening for a wide variety of publications. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1997 and lives in London’s East End.

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• Editore: Random House Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1400062497
• ISBN 13: 9781400062492
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 815