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Down There on a Visit
Christopher Isherwood
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Description for Down There on a Visit
Paperback. Berlin, the Greek Islands, London and California. 1928, 1932, 1938 and 1940. Four portraits, four settings, four narrators, all known as 'Christopher Isherwood'. This book tells the vivid stories of Isherwood's life that, together with The Berlin Novels, were to have comprised his unfinished epic novel. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 24. Weight in Grams: 264.
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY PHILIP HENSHER
Berlin, the Greek Islands, London and California. 1928, 1932, 1938 and 1940. Four portraits, four settings, four narrators, all known as 'Christopher Isherwood'. Often regarded as the best of his novels, Down There on a Visit tells the vivid stories of Isherwood's life that, together with The Berlin Novels, were to have comprised his great unfinished epic novel.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Classics London
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099561088
SKU
V9780099561088
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About Christopher Isherwood
Christopher Isherwood was born in 1904. He began to write at university and later moved to Berlin, where he gave English lessons to support himself. He witnessed first hand the rise to power of Hitler and the Nazi party in Germany and some of his best works, such as Mr. Norris Changes Trains and Goodbye to Berlin, draw on these experiences. He created the character of Sally Bowles, later made famous as the heroine of the musical Cabaret. Isherwood travelled with W.H. Auden to China in the late 1930s before going with him to America in 1939. He died on 4 January 1986. His novel A Single Man was made into an award-winning film by Tom Ford, starring Colin Firth and Julianne Moore.
Reviews for Down There on a Visit
In several respects this is probably Isherwood's best novel. It offers the sheer pleasure of writing completely personal and yet completely controlled, radiant with observation, never wasting a word, funny and sympathetic
Stephen Spender
New Republic
This excellent novel may be the best Christopher Isherwood has written. A deeply intelligent and quietly compelling story
New York Times
Few writers have so unsparingly scrutinized their worlds. Down There on a Visit is outrageous, bitter, bleak, angry, wry, revealing, infuriating, and at times marvellously comic. An offbeat classic
Saturday Review
A bemused, sometimes acid portrait of people caught in private sexual hells of their own making. Its four episodes are connected by four narrators. All are called "Christopher Isherwood, " but each is a different character inhabiting a new setting: Berlin in 1928, the Greek Isles in 1933, London in 1938, and California in 1940. Down There on a Visit is a major work that shows Isherwood at the height of his literary powers.
Powells.com
That young man holds the future of the English novel in his hands
Somerset W. Maugham
Stephen Spender
New Republic
This excellent novel may be the best Christopher Isherwood has written. A deeply intelligent and quietly compelling story
New York Times
Few writers have so unsparingly scrutinized their worlds. Down There on a Visit is outrageous, bitter, bleak, angry, wry, revealing, infuriating, and at times marvellously comic. An offbeat classic
Saturday Review
A bemused, sometimes acid portrait of people caught in private sexual hells of their own making. Its four episodes are connected by four narrators. All are called "Christopher Isherwood, " but each is a different character inhabiting a new setting: Berlin in 1928, the Greek Isles in 1933, London in 1938, and California in 1940. Down There on a Visit is a major work that shows Isherwood at the height of his literary powers.
Powells.com
That young man holds the future of the English novel in his hands
Somerset W. Maugham