Lions and Shadows

Name: Lions and Shadows
Brand: Vintage Publishing
SKU: 9780099561224
Price: 14.88 EUR
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English

By (author): 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. It contains thinly veiled portraits of Isherwoods contemporaries Auden, Upward, and Spender, whose intimate friendships and cult of rebellion shaped the literary identity of England in the 1930s. Witty and outrageous, Isherwood pokes fun at the stars of his generation, above all himself, even as he testifies to their unique early gifts.

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Weight: 180g
Dimensions: 130 x 197mm
Publication Date: 23 May 2013
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780099561224

About Christopher Isherwood

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.