Christopher And His Kind
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
A candid and courageous self-portrait, Christopher and His Kind chronicles the decade between 1929 and 1939, when a young Christopher Isherwood fled the repressive conventions of English bourgeois life for the electric, decadent freedom of Weimar Berlin. With unflinching honesty, this memoir revisits the real people and experiences that inspired his celebrated Berlin Stories, tearing away the semi-fictional veil to reveal the true nature of his relationships, his homosexuality, and the intoxicating, dangerous world of pre-war Germany as it descended into the shadow of National Socialism. Written with the retrospective clarity and dry wit that defined Isherwood's literary voice, the memoir stands as a landmark work in gay autobiography and twentieth-century literature. Unlike the carefully constructed persona of his earlier fiction, here Isherwood presents himself without disguise — a witness to history, a participant in a vanishing world, and a man finally free to tell the truth. The result is a work that is simultaneously an intimate confession and a sweeping social document, leaving the reader to wonder how much of history is shaped by those brave enough to simply be themselves.
Author: Christopher Isherwood
Format: Hardback
Published: 1977, Methuen
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
A candid and courageous self-portrait, Christopher and His Kind chronicles the decade between 1929 and 1939, when a young Christopher Isherwood fled the repressive conventions of English bourgeois life for the electric, decadent freedom of Weimar Berlin. With unflinching honesty, this memoir revisits the real people and experiences that inspired his celebrated Berlin Stories, tearing away the semi-fictional veil to reveal the true nature of his relationships, his homosexuality, and the intoxicating, dangerous world of pre-war Germany as it descended into the shadow of National Socialism. Written with the retrospective clarity and dry wit that defined Isherwood's literary voice, the memoir stands as a landmark work in gay autobiography and twentieth-century literature. Unlike the carefully constructed persona of his earlier fiction, here Isherwood presents himself without disguise — a witness to history, a participant in a vanishing world, and a man finally free to tell the truth. The result is a work that is simultaneously an intimate confession and a sweeping social document, leaving the reader to wonder how much of history is shaped by those brave enough to simply be themselves.