Christopher and His Kind
  • Published: 16 January 2013
  • ISBN: 9780099561071
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $29.99
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Christopher and His Kind

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Isherwood's candid memoir of his life in 1930s Berlin. A seminal book of gay liberation which made him the grand old man of the movement.

In November 1929, Christopher Isherwood - determined to become a 'permanent foreigner' - packed a rucksack and two suitcases and left England on a one-way ticket for Berlin. With incredible candour and wit, Isherwood recalls the decadence of Berlin's night scene and his route to sexual liberation. As the Nazis rise to power, Isherwood describes his dramatic struggle to save his partner Heinz from persecution.
  • Published: 16 January 2013
  • ISBN: 9780099561071
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 384
  • RRP: $29.99
Categories:

About the author

Christopher Isherwood

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.

portrait photo of Christopher Isherwood

Also by Christopher Isherwood

A Single Man
The Animals
My Guru and His Disciple
The Condor and the Cows
Kathleen and Frank
Lions and Shadows
Down There on a Visit
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Praise for Christopher and His Kind

The best prose writer in English

Gore Vidal

Indispensable for admirers of this truly masterly writer

New York Times

Christopher and His Kind is written with the lucidity, the intelligence, and the wit that we have come to expect from Isherwood at his best

New Statesman

Pepys of the bohemian quarter

New York Sun

Christopher Isherwood is back in vogue

Independent

That young man holds the future of the English novel in his hands

Somerset W. Maugham