Welcome to sunny suburban 1960s Southern California. George is a gay middle-aged English professor, adjusting to solitude after the tragic death of his young partner. He is determined to persist in the routines of his former life. A Single Man follows him over the course of an ordinary twenty-four hours. Behind his British reserve, tides of grief, rage, and loneliness surge--but what is revealed is a man who loves being alive despite all the everyday injustices.
When Christopher Isherwood's A Single Man first appeared, it shocked many with its frank, sympathetic, and moving portrayal of a gay man in maturity. Isherwood's favorite of his own novels, it now stands as a classic lyric meditation on life as an outsider.
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"An absolutely devastating, unnerving, brilliant book." --Stephen Spender
"Isherwood's A Single Man, published in 1964, is one of the first and best novels of the modern gay liberation movement." --Edmund White
"A testimony to Isherwood's undiminished brilliance as a novelist." --Anthony Burgess
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Book Description paperback. Condition: New. Reprint. About the AuthorChristopher Isherwood (1904-1986) was born outside of Manchester, England. His life in Berlin from 1929 to 1933 inspired The Berlin Stories, which were adapted into a play, a film, and the musical Cabaret. Isherwood immigrated to the United States in 1939. A major figure in twentieth-century fiction and the gay rights movement, he wrote more than twenty books, including the novel A Single Man and his autobiography, Christopher and His Kind.Product DescriptionWhen Christopher Isherwood's A Single Man first appeared, it shocked many with its frank, sympathetic, and moving portrayal of a gay man in maturity. Isherwood's favorite of his own novels, it now stands as a classic lyric meditation on life as an outsider.Welcome to sunny suburban 1960s Southern California. George is a gay middle-aged English professor, adjusting to solitude after the tragic death of his young partner. He is determined to persist in the routines of his former life. A Single Man follows him over the course of an ordinary twenty-four hours. Behind his British reserve, tides of grief, rage, and loneliness surge-but what is revealed is a man who loves being alive despite all the everyday injustices.Review"An absolutely devastating, unnerving, brilliant book." -Stephen Spender"Isherwood's A Single Man, published in 1964, is one of the first and best novels of the modern gay liberation movement." -Edmund White"A testimony to Isherwood's undiminished brilliance as a novelist." -Anthony BurgessExcerpt. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.A Single ManBy Christopher Isherwood Farrar, Straus and GirouxCopyright 1964 Christopher IsherwoodAll rights reserved.ISBN: 978-0-374-53387-8ContentsTitle Page,Copyright Notice,Dedication,Begin Reading,Also by Christopher Isherwood,Copyright,CHAPTER 1Waking up begins with saying am and now. That which has awoken then lies for a while staring up at the ceiling and down into itself until it has recognized I, and there from deduced I am, I am now. Here comes next, and is at least negatively reassuring; because here, this morning, is where it has expected to find itself: what's called at home.But now isn't simply now. Now is also a cold reminder: one whole day later than yesterday, one year later than last year. Every now is labeled with its date, rendering all past nows obsolete, until - later or sooner - perhaps - no, not perhaps - quite certainly: it will come.Fear tweaks the vagus nerve. A sickish shrinking from what waits, somewhere out there, dead ahead.But meanwhile the cortex, that grim disciplinarian, has taken its place at the central controls and has been testing them, one after another: the legs stretch, the lower back is arched, the fingers clench and relax. And now, over the entire intercommunication system, is issued the first general order of the day: UP.Obediently the body levers itself out of bed - wincing from twinges in the arthritic thumbs and the left knee, mildly nauseated by the pylorus in a state of spasm - and shambles naked into the bathroom, where its bladder is emptied and it is weighed: still a bit over 150 pounds, in spite of all that toiling at the gym! Then to the mirror.What it sees there isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament. Here's what it has done to itself, here's the mess it has somehow managed to get itself into during its fifty-eight years; expressed in terms of a dull, harassed stare, a coarsened nose, a mouth dragged down by the corners into a grimace as if at the sourness of its own toxins, cheeks sagging from their anchors of muscle, a throat hanging limp in tiny wrinkled folds. The harassed look is that of a desperately tired swimmer or runner; yet there is no question of stopping. The creature we are watching will struggle on and on until it drops. Not because it is heroic. It can imagine no alternative.Staring and staring into the mirror, it sees many faces within its face - the face of the child, th. Seller Inventory # BKZN9780374533878