Down there on a visit
by Christopher Isherwood
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"A bemused, sometimes acid portrait of people caught in private sexual hells of their own making. Four episodes are connected by four narrators, all of who are called "Christopher Isherwood." Yet each is a different character inhabiting a new setting; Berlin in 1928, the Greek Isles in 1933, London in 1938, and California in 1940"--Page 4 of cover.
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Gay men, Fiction in English, British, Fiction, Interpersonal relations, Sexuality, Young men, Friendship, Travel, British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), English fiction, Fiction, coming of age, Fiction, psychological, Fiction, biographical, Friendship, fiction, Europe, fiction, California, fiction, Psychological fictionPlaces
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Down There on a Visit: A Novel
Jun 11, 2013, Brand: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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0374533806 9780374533809
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Down there on a visit
1999, University of Minnesota Press
in English
- 1st University of Minnesota Press ed.
0816633673 9780816633678
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Down there on a visit
1974, White Lion Publishers, TBS The Book Service Ltd
in English
0856174548 9780856174544
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Christopher Isherwood originally intended Down There on a Visit to be part of The Lost, the unfinished epic novel that would also incorporate his famous Berlin Stories. Tracing many of the same themes as that earlier work, this novel is a bemused, sometimes acid portrait of people caught in private sexual hells of their own making. Its four episodes are connected by four narrators. All are called "Christopher Isherwood, " but each is a different character inhabiting a new setting: Berlin in 1928, the Greek Isles in 1933, London in 1938, and California in 1940. Down There on a Visit is a major work that shows Isherwood at the height of his literary powers.
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