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Christopher and His Kind: A Memoir, 1929-1939
Contributor(s): Isherwood, Christopher (Author)
ISBN: 0374535221     ISBN-13: 9780374535223
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
OUR PRICE:   $17.10  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: February 2015
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- Biography & Autobiography | Lgbt
Dewey: B
Series: FSG Classics
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.6" W x 8.3" (0.60 lbs) 352 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
- Cultural Region - British Isles
- Sex & Gender - Gay
 
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Publisher Description:

An indispensable memoir by one of the most prominent writers of his generation

Originally published in 1976, Christopher and His Kind covers the most memorable ten years in the writer's life--from 1928, when Christopher Isherwood left England to spend a week in Berlin and decided to stay there indefinitely, to 1939, when he arrived in America. His friends and colleagues during this time included W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, and E. M. Forster, as well as colorful figures he met in Germany and later fictionalized in his two Berlin novels--and who appeared again, fictionalized to an even greater degree, in I Am a Camera and Cabaret.

What most impressed the first readers of this memoir, however, was the candor with which he describes his life in gay Berlin of the 1930s and his struggles to save his companion, a German man named Heinz, from the Nazis. An engrossing and dramatic story and a fascinating glimpse into a little-known world, Christopher and His Kind remains one of Isherwood's greatest achievements.

Contributor Bio(s): Isherwood, Christopher: - Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986) was born in Manchester, England. His life in Berlin from 1929 to 1933 inspired The Berlin Stories, which were adapted into a play, a film, and the musical Cabaret. Isherwood immigrated to the United States in 1939. A major figure in twentieth-century fiction and the gay rights movement, he wrote more than twenty books, including the novel A Single Man and his autobiography, Christopher and His Kind.