A Single Man

Isherwood’s short poignant novel is a tender and wistful love story Celebrated as a masterpiece from its first publication A Single Man is the story of George an English professor in suburban California left heartbroken after the death of his lover Jim. With devastating clarity and humour Isherwood shows George's determination to carry on evoking the unexpected pleasures of life as well as the soul's ability to triumph over loneliness and alienation.|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.|Isherwood's short poignant novel is a tender and wistful love story Celebrated as a masterpiece from its first publication A Single Man is the story of George an English professor in suburban California left heartbroken after the death of his lover Jim. With devastating clarity and humour Isherwood shows George's determination to carry on evoking the unexpected pleasures of life as well as the soul's ability to triumph over loneliness and alienation.'A virtuoso piece of work...courageous...powerful' Sunday Times'This mix of humour and stoicism in the face of pent-up grief is essential Isherwood' Guardian|The best prose writer in English|A virtuoso piece of work...courageous...powerful|His key post-war work. A quarter-century ahead of its time in its portrayal of a quotidian homosexual life it inspired a generation of gay writers in Britain and the US|Lyrical and intensely moving|A testimony to Isherwood's undiminished brilliance as a novelist