The World in the Evening

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext At a party in the Hollywood Hills, Stephen Monk finds his wife in the arms of another man. Betrayed and furious, he packs his belongings and returns to the home he was born in. But most of all, the memory of his lost love, Elizabeth Rydal, haunts him. Can he forgive his wife, and most importantly, himself? Zusammenfassung At a party in the Hollywood Hills, Stephen Monk finds his wife in the arms of another man. Betrayed and furious, he packs his belongings and returns to the home he was born in. But most of all, the memory of his lost love, Elizabeth Rydal, haunts him. Can he forgive his wife, and most importantly, himself?

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Isherwood
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.11.2012
• EAN: 9780099561149
• ISBN: 978-0-09-956114-9
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 21 mm
• Series: Vintage Classics; Vintage Isherwood
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; United States of America, USA, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Relating to bisexuals or pansexuals, FICTION / World Literature / England / 20th Century, FICTION / LGBTQ+ / Bisexual