The Sixties: Diaries, 1960-1969 - Hardcover

Isherwood, Christopher

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 006118019X ISBN 13: 9780061180194

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2010

Synopsis

HardCover. Pub the Date: November 2010 Pages: 800 in Publisher: Harper This second volume of Christopher Isherwood's remarkable diaries opens on his fifty-sixth birthday. As the fifties give way to the decade hr. of social and sexual revolution. Isherwood takes the reader from the bohemian sunshine of Southern California to a London finally swinging free of post-war gloom. to the racy cosmopolitanism of New York and to the raw Australian outback. He charts his ongoing quest for spiritual certainty under the guidance of his Hindu guru. and he reveals in reckless detail the emotional drama of his love for the American painter Don Bachardy. thirty years his junior and struggling to establish his own artistic identity.The diaries are crammed with wicked gossip and probing psychological insights about the cultural icons of the time-Francis Bacon. Richard Burton. Leslie Caron. Mar...

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Review:

"A good writer...intensely self-aware...a fascinating companion...THE SIXTIES [is] accessible to everyone...a true piece of social history."--Edmund White, New York Times Book Review

"The diary entries in The Sixties are a mix of quotidian detail, social observation, moody reverie, gossip and self-rebuke."--Wall Street Journal

"Gossipy, funny, wide-ranging, and revealing...[Isherwood] comes across as approachable, aware, and passionately interested."--Publishers Weekly

"An intimate portrait of the life of a beautiful if neurotic mind... streaked with gossip, flinty observations, great good humor and--despite Isherwood's fundamental discretion--plenty of frank talk."--Dwight Garner, New York Times

"These diaries are, in their core, a love story...thanks to [them], we bear witness to it all--and are all the richer for it."--New York Journal of Books

An intimate portrait of the life of a beautiful if neurotic mind streaked with gossip, flinty observations, great good humor and despite Isherwood s fundamental discretion plenty of frank talk. --Dwight Garner, New York Times"

These diaries are, in their core, a love story thanks to [them], we bear witness to it all and are all the richer for it. --New York Journal of Books"

A good writer intensely self-aware a fascinating companion THE SIXTIES [is] accessible to everyone a true piece of social history. --Edmund White, New York Times Book Review"

The diary entries in The Sixties are a mix of quotidian detail, social observation, moody reverie, gossip and self-rebuke. --Wall Street Journal"

Gossipy, funny, wide-ranging, and revealing [Isherwood] comes across as approachable, aware, and passionately interested. --Publishers Weekly"

About the Author:

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. Between 1929 and 1939, he lived mainly abroad in Europe, spending four years in Berlin and writing the novels Mr Norris Changes Trains and Goodbye to Berlin, on which the musical Cabaret was based. He wrote three plays with W.H. Auden and emigrated with him to the United States in 1939. Auden settled in New York, and Isherwood went on to California, where he became a successful screenwriter. He took United States citizenship in 1946 and wrote another five novels, including Prater Violet, Down There on a Visit, and A Single Man. He also wrote a travel book about South America and a biography of the Indian mystic Ramakrishna. In the late 1960s and the 1970s, he turned to autobiography---Kathleen and Frank, Christopher and His Kind, My Guru and His Disciple---and published October, one month of his diary illustrated with drawings by Don Bachardy.
KATHERINE BUCKNELL is the editor of Christopher Isherwood's Diaries: Volume One, 1939-1960; Lost Years: A Memoir 1945-1951; and W.H. Auden's Juvenilia: Poems 1922-1928. She is coeditor of Auden Studies and a founder of the W.H. Auden Society. She is also the author of three novels.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 006118019X
• ISBN 13: 9780061180194
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 756
• Editor: Bucknell Katherine