WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY JAMES FENTON
Subtitled 'An education in the twenties', this work blends autobiography and fiction to describe the inner life of a writer evolving from precocious public school boy to Cambridge drop-out at large in London's Bohemia. It contains thinly veiled portraits of Isherwood's contemporaries Auden, Upward, and Spender, whose intimate friendships and cult of rebellion shaped the literary identity of England in the 1930s. Witty and outrageous, Isherwood pokes fun at the stars of his generation, above all himself, even as he testifies to their unique early gifts.
| ISBN: | 9780099561224 |
| Publication date: | 23rd May 2013 |
| Author: | Christopher Isherwood |
| Publisher: | Vintage Classics an imprint of Random House |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 256 pages |
| Series: | Vintage Classics |
| Genres: |
Autobiography: writers Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Social and cultural history Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers |