Down There on a Visit

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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY PHILIP HENSHERBerlin, 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.

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Weight 0.255 kg
Dimensions 2.2 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
Format
language1
Pages

368

Publisher

Year Published

2012-11-1

Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

0099561085

About The Author

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.

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

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This excellent novel may be the best Christopher Isherwood has written. A deeply intelligent and quietly compelling story

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