The Animals: Love Letters Between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy

Isherwood, Christopher; Bachardy, Don

ISBN 10: 0374105170 / ISBN 13: 9780374105174

Edité par Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014

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Ships from the UK with delivery in 2-3 days. A brand new hardback copy of a well-regarded book. US 1st edition 1st printing. Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux New York, 2014. The love story between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy--in their own words The English novelist and screenwriter Christopher Isherwood was already famous as the author of Goodbye to Berlin when he met Don Bachardy, a California teenager, on the beach in Santa Monica in 1952. Within a year, they began to live together as an openly gay couple, defying convention in the closeted world of Hollywood. Isherwood was forty-eight; Bachardy was eighteen. The Animals is the testimony in letters to their extraordinary partnership, which lasted until Isherwood's death in 1986--despite the thirty year age gap, affairs and jealousy (on both sides), the pressures of increasing celebrity, and the disdain of twentieth-century America for love between two men. The letters reveal the private world of the Animals: Isherwood was Dobbin, a stubborn old workhorse; Bachardy was the rash, playful Kitty. Isherwood had a gift for creating a safe and separate domestic milieu, necessary for a gay man in mid-twentieth-century America. He drew Bachardy into his semi-secret realm, nourished Bachardy's talent as a painter, and launched him into the artistic career that was first to threaten and eventually to secure their life together. The letters also tell of public achievements--the critical acclaim for A Single Man, the commercial success of Cabaret--and the bohemian whirl of friendships in Los Angeles, London, and New York with such stars as Truman Capote, Julie Harris, David Hockney, Vanessa Redgrave, Gore Vidal, and Tennessee Williams. Bold, transgressive, and playful, The Animals articulates the devotion, in tenderness and in storms, between two uniquely original spirits. We pack our books properly and ship daily from the UK.

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• Titre: The Animals: Love Letters Between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy
• Éditeur: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Date de parution: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0374105170
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780374105174
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: New
• État de la jaquette: New