Lions and Shadows by Christopher Isherwood
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY JAMES FENTON Subtitled 'An education in the twenties', this work blends autobiography and fiction to describe the inner life of a writer evolving from precocious public school boy to Cambridge drop-out at large in Londons Bohemia.
The best prose writer in English * Gore Vidal *
The writing is, as always, very clear, very moving and very funny * The Times *
The writing is, as always, very clear, very moving and very funny * The Times *
Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986) was one of the most celebrated writers of his generation. He left Cambridge without graduating, briefly studied medicine and then turned to writing his first novels, All the Conspirators and The Memorial. Between 1929 and 1939 he lived mainly abroad, spending four years in Berlin and writing the novels Mr Norris Changes Trains and Goodbye to Berlin on which the musical Cabaret was based. He moved to America in 1939, becoming a US citizen in 1946, and wrote another five novels, including Down There on a Visit and A Single Man, a travel book about South America and a biography of the Indian mystic Ramakrishna. In the late 1960s and '70s he turned to autobiographical works: Kathleen and Frank, Christopher and His Kind, My Guru and His Disciple and October, one month of his diary with drawings by Don Bachardy.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099561224 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099561220 |
| Title | Lions and Shadows |
| Author | Christopher Isherwood |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2013-05-23 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
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