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Christopher Isherwood Inside Out
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The major new biography of one of the great writers of the twentieth century, and the first to take advantage of a wealth of previously unseen documents and photographs. From the longtime editor of Isherwood's Diaries and letters, Katherine Bucknell.
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"As Bucknell's definitive wide-screen biography shows us, Isherwood's struggles were transmuted into lyrical fiction that never stopped questioning what it meant to be a man in the 20th century, and thus his art became our gift."
"Isherwood questioned everything in life, ardently examining himself, and Bucknell's marvelously knowledgeable portrait reveals the full dimensions of his richly contemplative life."
"Bucknell brings scholarly acumen and bravura storytelling to her stunning biography of novelist and playwright Christopher Isherwood ..."
"An engrossing, rigorously documented study of a 20th-century literary trailblazer."
"Some readers will admire this level of detail as properly exhaustive."
"Bucknell is right to put his psychology at the heart of his work ..."
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