Christopher Isherwood Diaries Volume 1 - Softcover
In 1939 Christopher Isherwood and W.H. Auden emigrated together to the United States. In spare, luminous prose, these diaries describe Isherwood's search for a new life in California; his work as a screenwriter in Hollywood, his pacifism during World War II and his friendships with such gifted artists and intellectuals as Garbo, Charles Chaplin, Thomas Mann, Charles Laughton and Aldous Huxley.
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"There is not a page that does not contain a good joke, original insight, deadly accurate description or delicious nugget of gossip... After the self-serving literary memoirs of recent years, it is all very refreshing. A major literary work, the diaries round off the writer both as a man and artist. They are intimate and intensely personal" (Independent on Sunday)
"Swift, clean, sane and gossipy" (Esquire)
"There is plenty to enjoy in this first volume...Isherwood's is an exemplary twentieth-century life: assured and neurotic, fearless and fretful, generous and small-minded, forgiving and remorsefully judgemental" (Financial Times)
"A pleasure to read... No word is wasted, and the casual looking sentences create the impression that we are overhearing what is being said... There is not a great wealth of this sort of thing in the English Language" (Scotsman)
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"Swift, clean, sane and gossipy" (Esquire)
"There is plenty to enjoy in this first volume...Isherwood's is an exemplary twentieth-century life: assured and neurotic, fearless and fretful, generous and small-minded, forgiving and remorsefully judgemental" (Financial Times)
"A pleasure to read... No word is wasted, and the casual looking sentences create the impression that we are overhearing what is being said... There is not a great wealth of this sort of thing in the English Language" (Scotsman)
'A major literary event...an essential part of this oeuvre' Guardian
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- PublisherVintage
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0749398477
- ISBN 13 9780749398477
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages1108
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good. In 1939 Christopher Isherwood and W.H. Auden emigrated together to the United States. In spare, luminous prose, these diaries describe Isherwood's search for a new life in California; his work as a screenwriter in Hollywood, his pacifism during World War II and his friendships with such gifted artists and intellectuals as Garbo, Charles Chaplin, Thomas Mann, Charles Laughton and Aldous Huxley. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine. Seller Inventory # GOR001475460
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Book Description PB. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. pp.1050. The diaries span the period from Isherwood's arrival in the United States with W H Auden, and describe his conversion to Hinduism, his pacifism in world War Two, his work as a screenwriter and his friendships with gifted writers and intellectuals. Seller Inventory # 0743
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