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Frank, funny and frequently poignant * Good Book Guide * Sharp and often very funny...marvellous and marveling -- Peter Parker * Spectator * Meticulously and lovingly edited by Katherine Bucknell...at its best his prose still seems fresh and in the moment * Spectator * Isherwood's is an exemplary twentieth-century life: assured and neurotic, fearless and fretful, generous and small-minded, forgiving and remorsefully judgemental. * Financial Times *

Sharp and often very funny...marvellous and marveling -- Peter Parker Spectator Meticulously and lovingly edited by Katherine Bucknell.at its best his prose still seems fresh and in the moment Spectator

Frank, funny and frequently poignant Good Book Guide Sharp and often very funny...marvellous and marveling -- Peter Parker Spectator Meticulously and lovingly edited by Katherine Bucknell.at its best his prose still seems fresh and in the moment Spectator Isherwood's is an exemplary twentieth-century life: assured and neurotic, fearless and fretful, generous and small-minded, forgiving and remorsefully judgemental. Financial Times

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Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986) was one of the most celebrated writers of his generation. He left Cambridge without graduating, briefly studied medicine and then turned to writing his first novels, All the Conspirators and The Memorial. Between 1929 and 1939 he lived mainly abroad, spending four years in Berlin and writing the novels Mr Norris Changes Trains and Goodbye to Berlin on which the musical Cabaret was based. He moved to America in 1939, becoming a US citizen in 1946, and wrote another five novels, including Down There on a Visit and A Single Man, a travel book about South America and a biography of the Indian mystic Ramakrishna. In the late 1960s and '70s he turned to autobiographical works- Kathleen and Frank, Christopher and His Kind, My Guru and His Disciple and October, one month of his diary with drawings by Don Bachardy.

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