Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 31/05/2012
ISBN: 9780099561064
Length: 224 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 14mm x 129mm
Weight: 159g
RRP: £9.99
The scene is 1920s Kensington and Philip and Joan are testing the very limits of politeness and restraint as they fight to expunge the oppression of their mother - by whatever means necessary. In his first novel, Christopher Isherwood paints an intimate portrait of the battle between old and young as he explores the destruction of a son by a domineering parent.
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 31/05/2012
ISBN: 9780099561064
Length: 224 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 14mm x 129mm
Weight: 159g
RRP: £9.99
In Isherwood's work, a magic potion of history and invention, the voice is clear, and, no matter how many times we hear it, it always seems to be speaking for the first time
Christopher Isherwood is back in vogue
That young man holds the future of the English novel in his hands