Mr Norris Changes Trains: Christopher Isherwood (Vintage classics) - Softcover

Isherwood, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099771411 ISBN 13: 9780099771418

Publisher: Vintage Classics, 2001

Synopsis

After a chance encounter on a train the English teacher William Bradshaw starts a close friendship with the mildly sinister Arthur Norris. Norris is a man of contradictions; lavish but heavily in debt, excessively polite but sexually deviant. First published in 1933 Mr Norris Changes Trains piquantly evokes the atmosphere of Berlin during the rise of the Nazis.

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Review:

"A supreme example of a radiant prose rhythm married to the most delicious dialogue – a portrait of the subtly ruinous Mr Norris." (Sebastian Barry Week)

"Isherwood sketches with the lightest of touches the last gasp of the decaying demi-monde and the vigorous world of Communists and Nazis, grappling with each other on the edge of the abyss" (Sunday Telegraph)

"What the Berlin stories retain, to a unique degree, is the ability to tell us what it really felt like then - to feel involved with the Germans and still to find that they retained their mystery; to be in the mode, yes, of a camera, and yet to be furiously, hopelessly involved" (James Fenton)

"The first literary novel that really switched me on was Christopher Isherwood's Mr Norris Changes Trains" (Chris Pattern Daily Mail)

"He immortalised Berlin in two short, brilliant novels both published in the Thirties, Mr Norris Changes Trains and Goodbye To Berlin, inventing a new form for future generations - intimate, stylised reportage in loosely connected episodes" (Daily Express)

Book Description:

Isherwood's immortal novel about political high-tension, passion and literary talent in 1930s Berlin

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage Classics
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0099771411
• ISBN 13: 9780099771418
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240