عنوان

Lost years :

(Number (ISBN

0061180017

(Number (ISBN

9780061180019

Number

b751022

Title Proper

Lost years :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

a memoir, 1945-1951 /

First Statement of Responsibility

Christopher Isherwood ; edited and introduced by Katherine Bucknell.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

HarperCollins,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[2000]

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xxxvii, 388 pages ;

Dimensions

25 cm

Text of Note

The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture.

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

"The English writer Christopher Isherwood settled in California in 1939 and spent the war years working in Hollywood film studios, teaching English to European refugees, and converting to Hinduism. By the time the war ended, he realized he was not cut out to be a monk. With his self-imposed wartime vigil behind him, he careened into a life of frantic socializing, increasing dissipation, anxiety, and, eventually, despair. For nearly a half decade he all but ceased to write fiction and even abandoned his lifelong habit of keeping a diary." "This is Isherwood's own account, reconstructed from datebooks, letters, and memory nearly thirty years later, of his experience during those missing years: his activities in Santa Monica, and also in New York and London, just after the war. Begun in 1971, in a postsixties atmosphere of liberation, Lost Years includes explicit details of his romantic and sexual relationships during the 1940s and unveils a hidden and sometimes shocking way of life shared with friends and acquaintances - many of whom were well-known artists, actors, and film-makers. Not until the 1951 Broadway success of I Am a Camera, adapted from his Berlin stories, did Isherwood begin to reclaim control of his talents and of his future."--Jacket.

Isherwood, Christopher,1904-1986

Isherwood, Christopher,1904-1986

Isherwood, Christopher.

Authors, English-- 20th century, Diaries.

British-- United States, Diaries.

Authors, English.

British.

7.150.

United States.

7

7

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Class number

Class number

System Code

System Code

Isherwood, Christopher,1904-1986

Bucknell, Katherine

Date of Transaction

20201204104540.0

Electronic name

[Book]

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