All the Conspirators - Hardcover

Isherwood, Christopher

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0224611046 ISBN 13: 9780224611046

Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1966

Synopsis

In this novel that clearly shows his early influences, Christopher Isherwood explores the theme of the destruction of the son by the evil mother. Set in the Kensington of the 1920s, Philip and Joan fight to expunge their mother's oppressiveness.

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Review

The best prose writer in English. --Gore Vidal"

A novel of adolescence, of family life among the New Poor, of atrocities witnessed at tea in the drawing room. A profound but not impartial book.--Cyril Connolly

In Isherwood s work, a magic potion of history and invention, the voice is clear, and no matter how many times we hear it, it always seems to be speaking for the first time."

The best prose writer in English.--Gore Vidal

Isherwood s best critics, Gore Vidal and Elizabeth Hardwick, have characterized his work as journalistic and objective, and indeed his writing can be read as a series of dispatches from the gay front.--Hilton Als"

In Isherwood's work, a magic potion of history and invention, the voice is clear, and no matter how many times we hear it, it always seems to be speaking for the first time.

Isherwood's best critics, Gore Vidal and Elizabeth Hardwick, have characterized his work as journalistic and objective, and indeed his writing can be read as a series of dispatches from the gay front.--Hilton Als

About the Author

Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986), perhaps the first major openly gay writer to be read extensively by a wider audience, was one of the most distinguished authors of the twentieth century. His literary friendships encompassed such writers as W. H. Auden, E. M. Forster, Stephen Spender, Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, and Somerset Maugham.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd
• Publication date: 1966
• ISBN 10: 0224611046
• ISBN 13: 9780224611046
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256