Single Man - Couverture rigide

Isherwood, Christopher

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0416026508 ISBN 13 : 9780416026504

Editeur : Methuen young books, 1964

Synopsis

This book has hardback covers. Ex-library, With usual stamps and markings, In good all round condition. No dust jacket.

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

George, the middle-fiftyish English don at the Californian university, has lost his boyfriend, killed in a motor crash. He carries on with his life, making faces at the children in the nearby houses, lecturing on Aldous Huxley, gossiping [and] drinking too much...All the time he is tormented by his urges: the sight of a blond young man playing tennis, a chance meeting with one of his students, for whom George has been nursing a passion, which leads to drunken nude bathing.

'Mr Isherwood has not written anything as good as this for a long time. It is all very sad and yet at times wildly funny...The description of the Californian scene is bitter, nostalgic, yet at the same time tinged with love' David Holloway, Daily Telegraph

'A testament to Isherwood's undiminished brilliance as a novelist' Anthony Burgess, The Listener

Revue de presse :

"His key postwar work. A quarter-century ahead of its time in its portrayal of a quotidian homosexual life, it inspired a generation of gay writers in Britain and the US" (Independent)

"This mix of humour and stoicism in the face of pent-up grief is essential Isherwood" (Guardian)

"His own highly personal form of fiction [is one] in which simple sentences strike a note of great intimacy with the reader as if to a close personal friend, and a sense of total honesty is sought. This style, witty, observant, nostalgic, exact, was Isherwood's great contribution to modern literature" (Financial Times)

"He had dazzling talents as a writer. His literary production was pre-eminent for its wit, humour, charm of style and narrative skill... A Single Man can be almost considered as his masterpiece" (Guardian John Lehmann)

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Methuen young books
• Date d'édition: 1964
• ISBN 10: 0416026508
• ISBN 13: 9780416026504
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1