{"product_id":"2026100012914-secondhand-christopher-his-kind","title":"Christopher \u0026 His Kind","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 one of the twentieth century's most candid and revelatory memoirs, Christopher Isherwood chronicles his own life with the same unflinching honesty and elegant precision he brought to his celebrated fiction. Christopher and His Kind covers the years 1929 to 1939, tracing Isherwood's restless journey through the decadent, politically charged streets of Weimar Berlin, his passionate relationships with young men, and the circle of brilliant, bohemian friends — including W.H. Auden — who shaped his artistic vision. Where his earlier Berlin stories maintained a veneer of fictional distance, here Isherwood strips away the mask, presenting himself not as the famously detached narrator but as a fully engaged, desiring, and politically aware human being navigating a world on the brink of catastrophe.\n\nWritten with the wit, warmth, and crystalline prose that define Isherwood's style, this memoir stands as both a literary landmark and a seminal text in queer autobiography. It argues, with quiet but unwavering conviction, that personal truth and political history are inseparable — that the private life is always lived against a public backdrop. A key document for understanding the Lost Generation of English writers abroad, it illuminates how exile, sexuality, and the shadow of fascism forged one of modern literature's most distinctive voices. For any reader who has ever lost themselves in the Berlin stories, this memoir reveals what the fiction could only hint at.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50948325179611,"sku":"2026100012914-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/523acfee-3045-400b-90ee-6c9b53a6fe4c.png?v=1793104702","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100012914-secondhand-christopher-his-kind","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}