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Rare and modern books

Isherwood, Christopher

Christopher and His Kind 1929-1939

Farrar,Strauss & Giroux, 1977

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Year of publication
1977
ISBN
0374312567
Place of printing
New York
Author
Isherwood, Christopher
Publishers
Farrar,Strauss & Giroux
Edition
1st US Edition
Keyword
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD FRANCES KING MODERN GREECE
Cover description
Near Fine - Slight Chips
Binding description
H
Dust jacket
Yes
State of preservation
Very Good
Binding
Hardcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
Yes

Description

Christopher and His Kind covers the most memorable ten years in the writer's life - from 1928, when Christopher Isherwood left England to spend a week in Berlin and decided to stay there indefinitely, to 1939, when he arrived in America. His friends and colleagues during this time included W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, and E. M. Forster, as well as colorful figures he met in Germany and later fictionalized in his two Berlin novels?and who appeared again, fictionalized to an even greater degree, in I Am a Camera and Cabaret. It includes accounts of his experiences in Greece (c. 1933) on an island off Euboea with Frances King and his friends.(pp 133-146) which was fictionalized in "Down There on a Visit" 339p.Crisp, tight unmarked copy, but ffep is missing, else fine