| Description |
xviii, 293 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-285) and index. |
| Contents |
Illustrations -- Foreword / Armistead Maupin -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: the Isherwood century / James J. Berg and Chris Freeman -- Who is Christopher Isherwood? / Katherine Bucknell -- Isherwood in Los Angeles / Dan Luckenbill -- In the blink of an eye: evolving with Christopher Isherwood / Stathis Orphanos -- Ish circa 1959-1963 / Michael S. Harper -- Reading from Isherwood's letter circa 1959-1963 / Michael S. Harper -- Gay Isherwood visits straight Riverside / Robert Peters -- My Isherwood, my Bachardy / Carolyn G. Heilbrun -- "Write it down or it's lost": Isherwood as mentor / James P. White -- A life open to art / Don Bachardy -- Portrait of the artist as companion: interviews with Don Bachardy / Niladri R. Chatterjee. |
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[Con.] Frankenstein: the true story: the artist as "monster" / Katharine M. Morsberger and Robert E. Morsberger -- Pool in rocks by the sea: Isherwood and Bachardy / Edmund White -- Deathwatch / Donald N. Mager -- Aunt Mary, Uncle Henry, and anti-ancestral impulses in The memorial / James Kelley -- In a populous city: Isherwood in the thirties / Antony Shuttleworth -- The dog beneath the schoolboy's skin: Isherwood, Auden, and fascism / William Ostrem -- Documentary dilemmas: Shifting fronts in Journey to a war / Marsha Bryant -- Strategically minor: Isherwood's revision of Forster's Mythology / Stephen da Silva -- A single man, then and now / David Garnes -- Isherwood and the Violet Quill / David Bergman. |
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[Con.] Christopher under the wishing tree / P. Shneidre -- Christopher Isherwood in jail / David Garrett Izzo -- "Always dance": Sex and salvation in Isherwood's vedantism / John McFarland -- The path that leads to safety: Spiritual renewal and autobiographical narrative / Mario Faraone -- "The wandering stopped": An interview with Christopher Isherwood / Carola M. Kaplan -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index. |
| Awards |
Lambda Literary Award, 2000 |
| Subject |
Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-1986.
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Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
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| Added Author |
Berg, James J.
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Freeman, Chris, 1965-
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| ISBN |
0299167003 |
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0299167046 paperback alkaline paper |
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