Title
Isherwood: A Life Revealed,Used
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Here is the definitive biography of one of the most exciting, influential, and elusive authors of the twentieth century. Christopher Isherwoods novels and short stories, including those that inspired the musical Cabaret, have always been assumed to be largely autobiographical.Based in part on Isherwoods private papersunavailable until nowthis fascinating book presents the real story of his life, a life that saw a relatively conventional boy become an acclaimed writer, mystic, and grand old man of the gay liberation movement. In the end, Isherwood: A Life portrays someone who misled as much as he revealed.Born in 1904, the heir to a large country estate where his grandfather was squire, Isherwood had a youth filled with both privilege and loss. His fathers death in World War I devastated his mother and created a herofather image that would haunt both Christopher and his unstable brother for the rest of their lives.He began to acknowledge his homosexuality at his English boarding school and subsequently formed a definition of self based on subterfuge, performance, and escape. With his lifelong friends W. H. Auden and Stephen Spender he emerged as one of the leading literary figures of the 1930s.From the bars, nightclubs, and slums of Weimar Germanywhere Isherwood created The Berlin Stories and introduced the world to Sally Bowlesto homosexual communes in Greece and Portugal, to the film studios of London (the subject of his novel Prater Violet) and Hollywood, his destinations became arenas for his reinventions. Isherwoods later years as an unofficial spiritual and sexual sage in Southern California only added to the abiding mystery of his life.In addition to using Isherwoods correspondence, unpublished diaries, and other previously unavailable sources in painting this clear and definitive portrait, Peter Parker has also unearthed the authors telling early works, including parodies, school memoirs, and even part of a crucial lost novel.Painstakingly researched and brilliantly written, Isherwood: A Life captures the fugitive reality of a man who has become a favorite artist and important symbol of an entire era in our life of letters. Published in the centennial of his birth, it will be read as long as Isherwood himself is.
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