A Single Man
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In a single, grief-saturated day in 1962 Los Angeles, a middle-aged British professor named George Falconer moves through the routines of ordinary life while carrying the devastating weight of having lost his longtime partner, Jim, in a car accident. A Single Man is a masterwork of interior monologue — at once a razor-sharp portrait of suburban American alienation and a tender, aching meditation on love, loss, and what it means to be an outsider in a world built for conformity. Christopher Isherwood, long celebrated for his crystalline prose and unflinching moral clarity, crafts a narrative of extraordinary psychological depth, channelling the stream-of-consciousness tradition of Virginia Woolf into something distinctly mid-century and distinctly his own. Published in 1964, the novel was groundbreaking in its frank, dignified portrayal of a gay man's inner life at a time when such stories were rarely told, and it remains a cornerstone of both LGBTQ+ literature and the broader canon of 20th-century fiction. Spare, luminous, and quietly devastating, it leaves the reader asking what truly constitutes a life well-lived — and whether a single day can hold an entire world.
Author: Christopher Isherwood
Format: Paperback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In a single, grief-saturated day in 1962 Los Angeles, a middle-aged British professor named George Falconer moves through the routines of ordinary life while carrying the devastating weight of having lost his longtime partner, Jim, in a car accident. A Single Man is a masterwork of interior monologue — at once a razor-sharp portrait of suburban American alienation and a tender, aching meditation on love, loss, and what it means to be an outsider in a world built for conformity. Christopher Isherwood, long celebrated for his crystalline prose and unflinching moral clarity, crafts a narrative of extraordinary psychological depth, channelling the stream-of-consciousness tradition of Virginia Woolf into something distinctly mid-century and distinctly his own. Published in 1964, the novel was groundbreaking in its frank, dignified portrayal of a gay man's inner life at a time when such stories were rarely told, and it remains a cornerstone of both LGBTQ+ literature and the broader canon of 20th-century fiction. Spare, luminous, and quietly devastating, it leaves the reader asking what truly constitutes a life well-lived — and whether a single day can hold an entire world.