Born into the English landed gentry, the heir to a substantial
country estate, Christopher Isherwood ended up in California, an
American citizen and the disciple of a Hindu swami. En route, he
became a leading writer of the 1930's generation, an unmatched
chronicler of pre-Hitler Berlin, an experimental dramatist, a war
reporter, a travel writer, a pacifist, a Hollywood screenwriter, a
monk, and a grand old man of the emerging gay liberation movement.
In this biography, the first to be written since Isherwood's death,
and the only one with access to all Isherwood's papers, Peter
Parker traces the long journey of a man who never felt at home
wherever he lived. Isherwood's travels were a means of escape: from
his family, his class, his country, and the dead weight of the
past. Parker reveals the truth about Isherwood's relationship with
his war-hero father, his strong-willed mother, and his disturbed
younger brother, Richard, who was also homosexual. He also draws
upon a vast number of letters to describe Isherwood's complicated
relationships with such lifelong friends as W. H. Auden, Stephen
Spender, Edward Upward and John Lehmann. The result is a frank
portrait of contradictions, a man searching for meaning in life,
and one of the twentieth century's most significant writers.
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