A Single Man (Picador Modern Classics) - Softcover

Isherwood, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0374533873 ISBN 13: 9780374533878

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013

Synopsis

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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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 Burgess

From the Publisher:

A Single Man is an exclusive Vintage Classic that has been made into a film starring Julianne Moore and Colin Firth and directed by Tom Ford.

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0374533873
• ISBN 13: 9780374533878
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192