The Memorial - Portrait of a Family (Paperback)

Set in the aftermath of World War I, Christopher Isherwood's "The Memorial "is the witty, almost forensic portrayal of the dissolution""of a tradition-bound English family. On the cusp of adulthood, ""the Cambridge student Eric Vernon finds himself torn between""his desire to emulate his heroic father, who led a life of quiet sacrifice""before dying in the war, and his envy of his father's roguish""friend who survived the war and afterward threw himself into""gay life.

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Published in 1932, when Isherwood was twenty-eight years old, "The Memorial "is the novel in which a dazzlingly talented young writer found his literary voice, the book in which Isherwood became Isherwood.

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