Christopher Isherwood - Lost Years, A Memoir 1945-1951 Tapa dura - 2000

Hardback. Good.

Chatto & Windus, 2000. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st printing.

London : Chatto & Windus, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Literally as new. Physical description; xxxvii, 388 pages ; 24 cm. Subjects; Isherwood, Christopher 1904-1986 ; Diaries. Isherwood, Christopher 1904-1986; works. Authors, English 20th century ; Diaries. British United States ; Diaries. Novelists, English 20th century ; Biography.

Random House, 2000. As New. Dust jacket: As New.. Christopher Isherwood settled in California in 1939 and spent the war years working in Hollywood studios and teaching English to European refugees. When the war ended he careered into a life of frantic socialising, increasing dissipation, anxiety and despair. For nearly half a decade he all but ceased to write fiction and he abandoned his lifelong habit of keeping a diary.This is Isherwood's account, reconstructed nearly thirty years later, of his day-to-day experiences in London, New York and Santa Monica. Begun in 1971, in a post-sixties 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, acquaintances and colleagues - many of whom were themselves well-known writers, artists, actors and filmmakers.Isherwood never prepared Lost Years for publication because he rapidly became caught up in writing the… Leer más

Chatto & Windus, 2000. Hardcover. Near Fine. Photos. Lovely copy in like jacket under fresh mylar.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.