Christopher Isherwood Inside Out
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An engrossing new biography of the man whose writings about 1930s
Berlin made him famous. From the editor of Isherwood’s diaries and
letters. Christopher Isherwood rejected the life he was born to and
set out to make a different one.Heir to an English estate, he
flunked out of university, moved to Berlin, was driven through
Europe by the Nazis, and circled the globe before finally settling
in Hollywood. There he adopted a new religion and continued to form
the friendships – including an astounding number of romantic and
sexual ones, often with other celebrated artists – through which he
discovered himself. Isherwood repeatedly fictionalised his friends
and himself – from the detached ‘Christopher Isherwood’ of Goodbye
to Berlin to George, the unapologetic middle-aged lover of men, in
A Single Man, and the boldly out narrator of Christopher and His
Kind.He was determined to portray his milieu appealingly to
mainstream audiences in lucid, entertaining, often hilarious prose.
Frankness about his sexuality, political beliefs and religion made
him both a figurehead for the left and a target for the right. All
the while, among the many public, constructed selves, an inmost
self remained hidden.Using a wealth of unpublished material,
Christopher Isherwood Inside Out reveals the drama and complexity
of Isherwood’s interior world. It tells how the traumas of his
father’s death in World War I and his failure to protect his German
lover from the Nazis were healed by his life as a monk in the
1940s, enabling him to commit unflinchingly to a sexually open
relationship in the 1950s, and to come out as a ‘grand old man’ of
the gay rights movement in the 1970s. With this new biography,
enriched by unlimited access to Isherwood’s partner Don Bachardy,
Katherine Bucknell shows how Christopher Isherwood achieved a
uniquely inspiring personal life.He effected lasting change in our
culture, through both his literary works and the way he lived.
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Vintage Publishing ,
Katherine Bucknell
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Vintage Publishing,
Katherine Bucknell
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Slovart
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