{"product_id":"2026100012912-secondhand-a-single-man","title":"A Single Man","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\n\nChristopher 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50948325245147,"sku":"2026100012912-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/4344ff93-4992-44dc-9a3d-78f8ba5e5e8b.png?v=1793104704","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100012912-secondhand-a-single-man","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}