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Isherwood
Peter Parker
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Description for Isherwood
Paperback. Num Pages: 356 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BG; C; DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153. .
Born into the English landed gentry, the heir to a substantial country estate, Christopher Isherwood ended up in California, an American citizen and the disciple of a Hindu swami. En route, he became a leading writer of the 1930's generation, an unmatched chronicler of pre-Hitler Berlin, an experimental dramatist, a war reporter, a travel writer, a pacifist, a Hollywood screenwriter, a monk, and a grand old man of the emerging gay liberation movement. In this biography, the first to be written since Isherwood's death, and the only one with access to all Isherwood's papers, Peter Parker traces the long journey ... Read more
Born into the English landed gentry, the heir to a substantial country estate, Christopher Isherwood ended up in California, an American citizen and the disciple of a Hindu swami. En route, he became a leading writer of the 1930's generation, an unmatched chronicler of pre-Hitler Berlin, an experimental dramatist, a war reporter, a travel writer, a pacifist, a Hollywood screenwriter, a monk, and a grand old man of the emerging gay liberation movement. In this biography, the first to be written since Isherwood's death, and the only one with access to all Isherwood's papers, Peter Parker traces the long journey ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
Number of Pages
356
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781509859405
SKU
V9781509859405
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99-50
About Peter Parker
Peter Parker is the author of The Old Lie: The Great War and the Public-School Ethos (1987) and a highly acclaimed biography of J.R. Ackerley (1989). He edited The Reader's Companion to the Twentieth-Century Novel (1994) and The Reader's Companion to Twentieth-Century Writers (1995), and is an associate editor of The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004). He writes ... Read more
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