Down There on a Visit
by Isherwood, Christopher
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0816633673
- ISBN 13
- 9780816633678
- Seller
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Bromsgrove, West Midlands, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 1999 9780816633678. Soft cover. VG. First Edition thus. No annotations or inscriptions etc. 320 pages. Christopher Isherwood originally intended 'Down There on a Visit' to be part of 'The Lost', the unfinished epic novel that would also incorporate his famous Berlin Stories. Tracing many of the same themes as that earlier work, this novel is 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. "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." --Stephen Spender, "The New Republic. Many other reviews of a similar nature. .
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Details
- Bookseller
- David Edward Hellawell (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2723
- Title
- Down There on a Visit
- Author
- Isherwood, Christopher
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0816633673
- ISBN 13
- 9780816633678
- Publisher
- Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 1999 9780816633678
- Place of Publication
- Minneapolis
- This edition first published
- 1999-03
- Keywords
- Isherwood Berlin Greece London California Sex Homosexuality Humour QSE
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David Edward Hellawell
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David Edward Hellawell
Biblio member since 2007
Bromsgrove, West Midlands
About David Edward Hellawell
Professor Emeritus now selling off the stock of a lifetime.
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