{"product_id":"books-my-guru-and-his-disciple-by-christopher-isherwood","title":"My Guru and His Disciple","description":"\u003cp\u003eMy Guru and His Disciple is a sweetly modest and honest portrait of Isherwood's spiritual instructor, Swami Prabhavananda, the Hindu priest who guided Isherwood for some thirty years. It is also a book about the often amusing and sometimes painful counterpoint between worldliness and holiness in Isherwood's own life. Sexual sprees, all-night drinking bouts, a fast car ride with Greta Garbo, script-writing conferences at M-G-M, and intellectual sparring sessions with Bertolt Brecht alternated with nights of fasting at the Vedanta Center and a six-month period of celibacy and sobriety. Seldom has a single man been endowed with such strong drives toward both sensuality and spirituality, abandon and discipline. . . . In these pages, Isherwood has reinvented the spirit of devotion for the modern reader. Edmund White, New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is a humbling tribute to someone who revealed to Isherwood inner grounds for spiritual awareness. Alan Hollinghurst, New Statesman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA major figure in twentieth-century fiction and the gay rights movement, Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986) is the author of Down There on a Visit, Lions and Shadows, A Meeting by the River, The Memorial, Prater Violet, A Single Man, and The World in the Evening, all available from the University of Minnesota Press.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53670867599633,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780413469304.jpg?v=1781513410","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-my-guru-and-his-disciple-by-christopher-isherwood","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}