A Single Man - Softcover

Isherwood, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099548828 ISBN 13: 9780099548829

Publisher: Vintage Classics, 2010

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Review:

"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" (Independent)

"This mix of humour and stoicism in the face of pent-up grief is essential Isherwood" (Guardian)

"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" (Financial Times)

"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" (John Lehmann Guardian)

"Very sad and yet at times wildly funny" (The Daily Telegraph)

From the Publisher:

A Single Man is an exclusive Vintage Classic that has been made into a film starring Julianne Moore and Colin Firth and directed by Tom Ford.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Classics
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0099548828
• ISBN 13: 9780099548829
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160