Christopher Isherwood was born in 1904. He began to write at university and later moved to Berlin, where he gave English lessons to support himself. He witnessed first hand the rise to power of Hitler and the Nazi party in Germany and some of his best works, such as Mr. Norris Changes Trains and Goodbye to Berlin, draw on these experiences. He created the character of Sally Bowles, later made famous as the heroine of the musical Cabaret. Isherwood travelled with W.H. Auden to China in the late 1930s before going with him to America in 1939. He died on 4 January 1986. His novel A Single Man was made into an award-winning film by Tom Ford, starring Colin Firth and Julianne Moore.
Christopher Isherwood was born in 1904. He began to write at university and later moved to Berlin, where he gave English lessons to support himself. He witnessed first hand the rise to power of Hitler and the Nazi party in Germany and some of his best works, such as Mr. Norris Changes Trains and Goodbye to Berlin, draw on these experiences. He created the character of Sally Bowles, later made famous as the heroine of the musical Cabaret. Isherwood travelled with W.H. Auden to China in the late 1930s before going with him to America in 1939. He died on 4 January 1986. His novel A Single Man was made into an award-winning film by Tom Ford, starring Colin Firth and Julianne Moore.
Four narrators, all known as 'Christopher Isherwood', in different locations and periods of time, paint portraits of their own private sexual hells
Christopher Isherwood was born in 1904. He began to write at university and later moved to Berlin, where he gave English lessons to support himself. He witnessed first hand the rise to power of Hitler and the Nazi party in Germany and some of his best works, such as Mr. Norris Changes Trains and Goodbye to Berlin, draw on these experiences. He created the character of Sally Bowles, later made famous as the heroine of the musical Cabaret. Isherwood travelled with W.H. Auden to China in the late 1930s before going with him to America in 1939. He died on 4 January 1986. His novel A Single Man was made into an award-winning film by Tom Ford, starring Colin Firth and Julianne Moore.
In several respects this is probably Isherwood's best novel. It
offers the sheer pleasure of writing completely personal and yet
completely controlled, radiant with observation, never wasting a
word, funny and sympathetic
*New Republic*
This excellent novel may be the best Christopher Isherwood has
written. A deeply intelligent and quietly compelling story
*New York Times*
Few writers have so unsparingly scrutinized their worlds. Down
There on a Visit is outrageous, bitter, bleak, angry, wry,
revealing, infuriating, and at times marvellously comic. An offbeat
classic
*Saturday Review*
A bemused, sometimes acid portrait of people caught in private
sexual hells of their own making. Its four episodes are connected
by four narrators. All are called "Christopher Isherwood, " but
each is a different character inhabiting a new setting: Berlin in
1928, the Greek Isles in 1933, London in 1938, and California in
1940. Down There on a Visit is a major work that shows Isherwood at
the height of his literary powers.
*Powells.com*
That young man holds the future of the English novel in his
hands
*Somerset W. Maugham*
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