Published by Chatto & Windus, 2010
ISBN 10: 0701169400 ISBN 13: 9780701169404
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. The Sixties: Diaries Volume Two, 1960-1969. Clean and tight. DJ not price clipped.
Published by Chatto & Windus, 2024
ISBN 10: 0701169400 ISBN 13: 9780701169404
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: used. 4. This second volume of Christopher Isherwood's remarkable diaries opens on his fifty-sixth birthday, as the fifties give way to the decade of social and sexual revolution. Isherwood takes the reader from the bohemian sunshine of Southern California to a London finally swinging free of post-war gloom, to the racy cosmopolitanism of New York and to the raw Australian outback. He charts his ongoing quest for spiritual certainty under the guidance of his Hindu guru, and he reveals in reckless detail the emotional drama of his love for the American painter Don Bachardy, thirty years his junior and struggling to establish his own artistic identity. The diaries are crammed with wicked gossip and probing psychological insights about the cultural icons of the time--Francis Bacon, Richard Burton, Leslie Caron, Marianne Faithfull, David Hockney, Mick Jagger, Hope Lange, W. Somerset Maugham, John Osborne, Vanessa Redgrave, Tony Richardson, David O. Selznick, Igor Stravinsky, Gore Vidal, and many others. But the diaries are most revealing about Isherwood himself--his fiction (including "A Single Man" and "Down There on a Visit"), his film writing, his college teaching, and his affairs of the heart. He moves easily from Beckett to Brando, from arthritis to aggression, from Tennessee Williams to foot powder, from the opening of "Cabaret" on Broadway (which he skipped) to a close analysis of Gide. In the background run references to the political and historical events of the period: the anxieties of the Cold War, Yuri Gagarin's spaceflight, de Gaulle and Algeria, the eruption of violence in America's inner cities, the Vietnam War, the Summer of Love, the moon landing, and the raising and lowering of hemlines. Isherwood is well known for his prophetic portraits of a morally bankrupt Europe on the eve of World War II; in this unparalleled chronicle, "The Sixties," he turns his fearless eye on the decade that more than any other has shaped the way we live now.
Published by Chatto and Windus, London UK, 2010
ISBN 10: 0701169400 ISBN 13: 9780701169404
Seller: Goulds Book Arcade, Sydney, Newtown, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 756 pages. This is Volume Two only. The dust jacket has minor wear. The page edges are lightly tanned and foxed. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown. Size: Size F: 9"-10" Tall (228-253mm).
Published by Chatto & Windus, 2010
ISBN 10: 0701169400 ISBN 13: 9780701169404
Seller: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, United Kingdom
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Published by Chatto & Windus, Uk, 2010
ISBN 10: 0701169400 ISBN 13: 9780701169404
Seller: powellbooks Somerset UK., Ilminster, SOM, United Kingdom
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First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A Major Literary Work, The Diaries Round Off The Writer Both As Man And Artist,Ther Is Slight Creasing To Spine On Dustjacket But Is Still Very Good The Boards Text Block Are Al Lsquare Tight And Clean Price Includes 2Nd Class Postage Uk Only,
Published by Chatto & Windus, 2010
ISBN 10: 0701169400 ISBN 13: 9780701169404
Seller: The Book Spot, Sioux Falls, SD, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: New.