Down There on a Visit A Novel Author:Christopher Isherwood A deeply personal novel in which Isherwood profoundly reckoned with his sexuality and how it shaped him — Consisting of four accounts of encounters with four male characters, each of them visited by a different Christopher Isherwood, and each set in a different time and place?Berlin in the 1920s (overlapping the period of The Berlin Stories), the... more » Greek isles in the early 1930s, London in the late 1930s, and California in 1940?this acclaimed novel explores Isherwood?s fundamental concerns with the choice of a way of life, and its implications for love, sex, spirituality, and self-fulfillment.
Published in 1959, when Isherwood had already become something of a literary rock star, Down There on a Visit is a very funny but also sad and deeply personal book that charts his life of carnal indulgence and his first interlude with what would become a serious involvement with Eastern mysticism.
This is the beginning of a multiyear plan to reissue all of Isherwood?s best work, culminating with the publication of a definitive new biography in 2015.« less
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