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Title: Lost Years : A Memoir 1945 - 1951 by Christopher Isherwood ISBN: 0061180017 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 05 September, 2000 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4
Rating: 5
Summary: "A Very Honest & Important Memoir"
Comment: If your looking to know the real "Christopher Isherwood" this is the book to read first. I really enjoyed this memoir called "The Lost Years" 1945-1951 because of its openness & honesty. If your interested in Christopher's daily life in every detail, from his friends, sex partners, lovers, and acquaintances it's all here. I expected to get details about all faucets of his daily life from this memoir and that's exactly what I got. If your looking for a sugar coated boring sexless book, look elsewhere. Christopher is very honest in laying out in graphic detail his sexual conquests. But that's not to say the book is just about his sexual life, it's like I said about all the daily details of his everyday life for those years. There's a wonderful Chronology in the back of the book for a quick history lesson of his life, and a glossary that is outstanding that contains all the bio's and history of his friends, partners, and relatives.
This book really opened my eyes to this wonderful writer, who happened to be gay. I thought the 90's were gay but after reading this book, things weren't much different back in the 40's. Gay life as we call it today, was really just as gay back then. Katherine Bucknell has done a wonderful job in editing this book, and gives us a wonderful introduction. Getting to know Christopher Isherwood as a writer and a human being has been a wonderful experience for me. Highly recommended.
Rating: 1
Summary: Isherwood Embarrassment
Comment: This is the most embarrassing book I know written by a writer of literary reputation. It is a mean-spirited, self-aggrandizing work that will only detract from the author's standing as a serious author. There are repetitive renditions of affairs, including intimate details that make one wonder why this book, not finished, was published posthumously at all. Gossipy, and spiteful, awkwardly written, this is a shameful document, not literature.
Rating: 5
Summary: Hiding from Garbo and Other Old Tricks
Comment: This memoir raises the bar for sexual candor way above what we are used to, and that is a good thing. Isherwood, in commenting and elaborating on his sketchy daily calendar notes for these years, takes a fiercely critical view of himself and his obsessions and, in the process, reveals the very funny and humane man behind the suave, mannerly one we have been familiar with up to now. From what he describes, gay life in Los Angeles during these years was covert yet very, very wild. He was a busy guy, both professionally and personally. His portraits of his friends, lovers, tricks, flirtations and coworkers in the film industry are vivid and viscerally engaging. When Isherwood wrote this memoir in the 1970s he no longer had any use for euphemisms and politesse and, consequently, he simply calls a three-way a three-way and says who did what to whom in what order and whether he later went back for more. What comes through loud and clear is that Isherwood loved the sex he had, and that he had no time for those suffering Saras and Sams who claimed that shame and suffering lurk behind the lure of sensuality. The body was a temple to him and he attended services every day and often more than once a day. When he set out to have fun with the boys, he had fun with the boys. When he had lunch with Garbo, he had a GREAT lunch with Garbo; and when he talked with Ava Gardner as a pal, he dedicated 100% of his attention to her. Does knowing this much intimate detail diminish Isherwood-the-writer? If anything, this brilliant, dishy and hilarious memoir deepens my regard for the Isherwood who produced the fiction classics like The Berlin Stories and A Single Man. I am in awe of his honesty.
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Title: Diaries : Volume 1, 1939-1960 by Christopher Isherwood ISBN: 0061180181 Publisher: Harperflamingo Pub. Date: 1998 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Christopher and His Kind by Christopher Isherwood ISBN: 0816638632 Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: 2001 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Down There on a Visit by Christopher Isherwood, Isherwood Christopher ISBN: 0816633673 Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: 1999 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Prater Violet by Christopher Isherwood ISBN: 0816638616 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press Pub. Date: 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood ISBN: 0811200701 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Pub. Date: 1988 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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