Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 04/02/2010
ISBN: 9780099541288
Length: 176 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 11mm x 129mm
Weight: 127g
RRP: £8.99
Isherwood's short, poignant novel is a tender and wistful love story
Celebrated as a masterpiece from its first publication, A Single Man is the story of George, an English professor in suburban California left heartbroken after the death of his lover, Jim. With devastating clarity and humour, Isherwood shows George's determination to carry on, evoking the unexpected pleasures of life as well as the soul's ability to triumph over loneliness and alienation.
'A virtuoso piece of work...courageous...powerful' Sunday Times
'This mix of humour and stoicism in the face of pent-up grief is essential Isherwood' Guardian
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 04/02/2010
ISBN: 9780099541288
Length: 176 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 11mm x 129mm
Weight: 127g
RRP: £8.99
The best prose writer in English
A virtuoso piece of work...courageous...powerful
His key post-war work. A quarter-century ahead of its time in its portrayal of a quotidian homosexual life, it inspired a generation of gay writers in Britain and the US
Lyrical and intensely moving
A testimony to Isherwood's undiminished brilliance as a novelist