A Single Man
Author: Christopher Isherwood
Translator: Dong-seop Cho
Publisher: Geuchaek
221 pages | 205*135mm
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About This Book
When A Single Man was originally published, it shocked many by its
frank, sympathetic, and moving portrayal of a gay man in midlife.
George, the protagonist, is adjusting to life on his own after the
sudden death of his partner, and determines to persist in the routines
of his daily life; the course of A Single Man spans twenty-four hours in
an ordinary day. An Englishman and a professor living in suburban
Southern California, he is an outsider in every way, and his internal
reflections and interactions with others reveal a man who loves being
alive despite everyday injustices and loneliness. Wry, suddenly manic,
constantly funny, surprisingly sad, this novel catches the texture of
life itself.
"A testimony to Isherwood's undiminished brilliance as a novelist."
Anthony Burgess
"An absolutely devastating, unnerving, brilliant book." Stephen Spender
"Just as his Prater Violet is the best novel I know about the movies,
Isherwood's A Single Man, published in 1964, is one of the first and
best novels of the modern gay liberation movement." Edmund White
From Publishers Weekly
Isherwood's resurrected classic?now a feature film?takes us to
Southern California in the 1960s and into one day in the life of George,
a gay, middle-aged English professor, struggling to cope with his young
lover's tragic death. Simon Prebble's voice is a perfect conduit for
Isherwood's lyricism, and he assumes the role of George so naturally and
with such raw feeling that listeners will feel as if they are hearing
the words straight from the protagonist himself, so beautifully does
Prebble create George's reserve behind which surge tides of grief, rage,
and bitter loneliness.
About the Author
Christopher Isherwood (1902-86) lived in Berlin from 1928 to 1933
and immigrated to the United States in 1939. Translator, biographer,
novelist, and playwright, Isherwood is the author of over twenty books.
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