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050 4 $aPR6017.S5$bZ468 2000
100 1 $aIsherwood, Christopher,$d1904-1986.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79073501
245 10 $aLost years :$ba memoir, 1945-1951 /$cChristopher Isherwood ; edited and introduced by Katherine Bucknell.
260 $aNew York, NY :$bHarperCollins,$c[2000], ©2000.
300 $axxxvii, 388 pages ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 1 $a"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.
520 8 $aFor nearly a half decade he all but ceased to write fiction and even abandoned his lifelong habit of keeping a diary.".
520 8 $a"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.
520 8 $aBegun 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."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aIsherwood, Christopher,$d1904-1986$vDiaries.
650 0 $aNovelists, English$y20th century$vDiaries.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010103903
700 1 $aBucknell, Katherine.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n89103266
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