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Kathleen and Frank

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099561194

  • Length: 528  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 38mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 483g

  • RRP: £10.99

Kathleen and Frank

This is the story of Christopher Isherwood’s parents – their meeting in 1895, marriage in 1903 after his father had returned from the Boer War, and his father’s death in an assault on Ypres in 1915, which left his mother a widow until her own death in 1960. As well as a family memoir, it is a social history of a period of striking change, and a portrait of the world which shaped Isherwood and which he rejected.

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099561194

  • Length: 528  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 38mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 483g

  • RRP: £10.99

Reviews

  • "Shows a deeper understanding of much that he had once rebelled against"

    Guardian

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About the Author

Christopher Isherwood

Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986) was one of the most celebrated writers of his generation. He left Cambridge without graduating, briefly studied medicine and then turned to writing his first novels, All the Conspirators and The Memorial. He spent four years in Berlin writing Mr Norris Changes Trains and Goodbye to Berlin on which the musical Cabaret was based, and then in 1939 he moved to America. He became a US citizen in 1946, where he wrote another five novels including A Single Man, a travel book and a biography of the Indian mystic Ramakrishna. In the 1960s and '70s he turned to autobiographical works: Kathleen and Frank, Christopher and His Kind and October, one month of his diary with drawings by Don Bachardy.

Christopher Isherwood

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