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Lost Years

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099283249

  • Length: 432  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 26mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 299g

  • RRP: £13.99

Lost Years

Christopher Isherwood settled in California in 1939 and spent the war years writing for Hollywood, but by 1945 he had all but ceased to write fiction and even abandoned his habit of keeping a diary. Instead he embarked on a life of frantic socialising and drinking. Looking back from the 1970s, Isherwood recreated these years from personal memories to form a remarkably honest mixture of private and social history.

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099283249

  • Length: 432  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 26mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 299g

  • RRP: £13.99

Reviews

  • "Isherwood's account is endearingly honest... a journal not only unusually objective but in parts shockingly frank. You are left feeling you have truly got to know Christopher Isherwood... A welcome supplement to Isherwood's<i> Diaries</i> and provides futher insight into a major literary figure"

    Scotland on Sunday

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About the Author

Christopher Isherwood

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 recently made into an award-winning film by Tom Ford, starring Colin Firth and Julianne Moore.

Christopher Isherwood

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