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Paperback. Pub Date :2012-05-31 Pages: 272 Language: English Publisher: Vintage Classics The First World War is over. Eric Vernon is on the cusp of adulthood. Tall. bony and awkward he finds himself torn between a desire to emulate his heroic father. who led a life of quiet sacrifice. and resentment toward his fathers roguish friend Edward Blake. who survived the war only to throw himself into gay life in Berlin. With subtle wit and trademark irony. Isherwoods second novel evokes a society in flux.
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"A genuine interpretation of the times" (Frank Kermode)
"Only now that Isherwood is dead can the pattern be seen clearly in a life that ranged restlessly from Oxbridge skeptic to Hindu disciple, from literary collaborator with W. H. Auden to Boswell of prewar Britain and postwar Hollywood. . . . His novels and nonfiction now all seem to be chapters of one enormous work in which he is the major character" (Guardian)
"Christopher Isherwood is back in vogue" (Independent)
"That young man holds the future of the English novel in his hands" (Somerset W. Maugham)
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"Only now that Isherwood is dead can the pattern be seen clearly in a life that ranged restlessly from Oxbridge skeptic to Hindu disciple, from literary collaborator with W. H. Auden to Boswell of prewar Britain and postwar Hollywood. . . . His novels and nonfiction now all seem to be chapters of one enormous work in which he is the major character" (Guardian)
"Christopher Isherwood is back in vogue" (Independent)
"That young man holds the future of the English novel in his hands" (Somerset W. Maugham)
Isherwood's witty first foray into autobiographical fiction recalls the post-war dissolution of traditional English families.
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