Down There on a Visit

Bremen, 1928. The Greek Islands, 1932. London, 1938. California, 1940. Four portraits, four settings, four narrators all named Christopher Isherwood. Here are the postcards home from a spiritual tourist looking for a new mode of life as well as a new place to live while Europe, and then the world, moves relentlessly toward war. Which of the guides he encounters can lead him to a better future? The businessman, the utopian, the guru, the geisha?

Published in 1962, Down There on a Visit is based on material from a proposed epic that would also have incorporated The Berlin Stories. It is now widely regarded as the most accomplished of Isherwood's novels.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 06/11/2013
ISBN: 9780374533809
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.62lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.87d