Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 04/02/2010
ISBN: 9780099548829
Length: 160 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 10mm x 129mm
Weight: 117g
RRP: £8.99
In this brilliantly perceptive novel, a middle aged professor living in California is alienated from his students by differences in age and nationality, and from the rest of society by his homosexuality. Isherwood explores the depths of the human soul and its ability to triumph over loneliness, alienation and loss.
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 04/02/2010
ISBN: 9780099548829
Length: 160 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 10mm x 129mm
Weight: 117g
RRP: £8.99
His key postwar 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
This mix of humour and stoicism in the face of pent-up grief is essential Isherwood
His own highly personal form of fiction [is one] in which simple sentences strike a note of great intimacy with the reader as if to a close personal friend, and a sense of total honesty is sought. This style, witty, observant, nostalgic, exact, was Isherwood's great contribution to modern literature
He had dazzling talents as a writer. His literary production was pre-eminent for its wit, humour, charm of style and narrative skill... A Single Man can be almost considered as his masterpiece
Very sad and yet at times wildly funny