Down There on a Visit

Bremen 1928. The Greek Islands 1932. London 1938. California 1940. Four portraits four settings four narrators all named Christopher Isherwood. Here are the postcards home from a spiritual tourist looking for a new mode of life as well as a new place to live while Europe and then the world moves relentlessly toward war. Which of the guides he encounters can lead him to a better future? The businessman the utopian the guru the geisha?Published in 1962 Down There on a Visit is based on material from a proposed epic that would also have incorporated The Berlin Stories. It is now widely regarded as the most accomplished of Isherwood''s novels.