{"product_id":"christopher-isherwood-inside-out-9780374119362","title":"Christopher Isherwood Inside Out","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA stunningly intimate exploration of the writer and gay cultural icon and of his lifelong search for authenticity.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe story of Christopher Isherwood's life is one of pilgrimage: away from the constraints of inheritance and empire and toward authenticity and spiritual illumination. Isherwood--the author of \u003ci\u003eGoodbye to Berlin\u003c\/i\u003e, which inspired \u003ci\u003eCabaret\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eA Single Man\u003c\/i\u003e--was born an heir to a crumbling English estate. He died an icon of gay liberation in California while his partner of thirty years, Don Bachardy, painted his death portrait. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIsherwood began his career depicting the psychological wreckage of World War I. Living in Berlin, his stories and plays (cowritten with W. H. Auden), inspired by the city's nightlife and artistic underbelly, made him famous. With the rise of fascism and the Gestapo's arrest of his boyfriend, Isherwood left the country and found work as a screenwriter in Hollywood, where he became the disciple of a Hindu monk, Swami Prabhavananda. Together they translated the Bhagavad Gita. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIsherwood shed his family ghosts and became a chief instigator of the cultural shift that made gay liberation possible. Every step of the journey served his writing; one of our greatest diarists, he recorded his experiences and transformed them in fiction and memoir. Katherine Bucknell charts the quest of the restless, penetrating, blackly comic mind through books, films, foreign lands, love affairs, and collaborations for self-understanding and happiness. Here is \u003ci\u003eChristopher Isherwood Inside Out\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/27\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374119362\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 864\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.11lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.11d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2024 pg. 17\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/17\/2024\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Katherine Bucknell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44392000225461,"sku":"9780374119362","price":38.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_1b432f00-8735-4ac0-b98e-83eaf432f00c.jpg?v=1719949562","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/christopher-isherwood-inside-out-9780374119362","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}