Down There on a Visit (FSG Classics) - Softcover

Isherwood, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0374533806 ISBN 13: 9780374533809

Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl, 2013

Synopsis

Bremen, 1928. The Greek Islands, 1932. London, 1938. California, 1940. Four portraits, four settings, four narrators all named Christopher Isherwood. Here are the postcards home from a spiritual tourist looking for a new mode of life as well as a new place to live while Europe, and then the world, moves relentlessly toward war. Which of the guides he encounters can lead him to a better future? The businessman, the utopian, the guru, the geisha?

Published in 1962, Down There on a Visit is based on material from a proposed epic that would also have incorporated The Berlin Stories. It is now widely regarded as the most accomplished of Isherwood's novels.

About this title

Product Description:

Rare Book

Review:

"Stunning. I can think of no better word." --Dorothy Parker, Esquire

"This is probably Isherwood's best novel. It offers the sheer pleasure of writing completely personal and yet completely controlled, radiant with observation, never wasting a word, funny and sympathetic." --Stephen Spender, The New Republic

"This excellent novel . . . may be the best Christopher Isherwood has written . . . A deeply intelligent and quietly compelling story." --Gerald Sykes, The New York Times

"This is the best of Mr. Isherwood's novels." --Cyril Connolly, The Times (London)

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0374533806
• ISBN 13: 9780374533809
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320