Liberation: Diaries Vol 3 - Hardcover

Isherwood, Christopher

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9780701184490: Liberation: Diaries Vol 3

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0701184493 ISBN 13: 9780701184490

Publisher: Chatto & Windus, 2012

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Liberation: Vol. 3 The author journeyed and changed with his century, until, by the 1980s, he was celebrated as the finest prose writer in English and the Grand Old Man of Gay Liberation. In this book, he reveals how the fear of death crowded in his fame, and shows how his life-long immersion lifted him, paradoxically, towards transcendence. Full description

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"Frank, funny and frequently poignant" (Good Book Guide)

"Sharp and often very funny...marvellous and marveling" (Peter Parker Spectator)

"Meticulously and lovingly edited by Katherine Bucknell...at its best his prose still seems fresh and in the moment" (Spectator)

Book Description:

Hilarious and often deeply moving, the final volume of Christopher Isherwood's extraordinary diaries chronicles the 1970s, with a preface by Edmund White

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