Down There on a Visit
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<P><B>A deeply personal novel in which Isherwood profoundly reckoned with his sexuality and how it shaped him</B> <BR><BR>Consisting of four accounts of encounters with four male characters, each of them visited by a different Christopher Isherwood, and each set in a different time and place—Berlin in the 1920s (overlapping the period of <I>The Berlin Stories</I>), the Greek isles in the early 1930s, London in the late 1930s, and California in 1940—this acclaimed novel explores Isherwood’s fundamental concerns with the choice of a way of life, and its implications for love, sex, spirituality, and self-fulfillment. <BR> Published in 1959, when Isherwood had already become something of a literary rock star, <I>Down There on a Visit</I> is a very funny but also sad and deeply personal book that charts his life of carnal indulgence and his first interlude with what would become a serious involvement with Eastern mysticism. <BR> This is the beginning of a multiyear plan to reissue all of Isherwood’s best work, culminating with the publication of a definitive new biography in 2015.
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