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Lions and Shadows

An Education in the Twenties

Lions and Shadows( )
Author: Isherwood, Christopher
Series title:FSG Classics Ser.
ISBN:978-0-374-53530-8
Publication Date:Nov 2015
Publisher:Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $21.00
Book Description:

Lions and Shadows blends autobiography and fiction to describe the true education of a writer evolving from precocious schoolboy to dropoutatlarge in London's bohemia of the 1920s. Forced to withdraw from Cambridge University, "Christopher Isherwood" works as a tutor to the privileged, serves as the secretary to a busy string quartet, ill-fatedly attends medical school. Licensed by names he invents, he works up extravagant portraits of his brilliant contemporaries W. H....
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Book Details
Pages:320
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Literary
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.45 x 8.27 x 0.86 Inches
Book Weight:0.99 Pounds
Author Biography
Isherwood, Christopher (Author)
Christopher Isherwood, born in Cheshire, England, in 1904, wrote both novels and nonfiction. He was a lifelong friend of W.H. Auden and wrote several plays with him, including Dog Beneath the Skin and The Ascent of F6. He lived in Germany from 1928 until 1933 and his writings during this period described the political and social climate of pre-Hitler Germany. Isherwood immigrated to the United States in 1939 and became a U.S. citizen in 1946. He lived in California, working on film scripts and adapting plays for television. The musical Cabaret is based on several of Isherwood's stories and on his play, I Am a Camera. His other works include Mr. Norris Changes Trains, about life in Germany in the early 1930s; Down There on a Visit, an autobiographical novel; and Where Joy Resides, published after his death in 1986.

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