{"product_id":"christopher-isherwood-inside-out","title":"Christopher Isherwood Inside Out","description":"\u003cp\u003eA first-rate biography of the man, the writer and the lover' DAVID HOCKNEY\u003cbr\u003e\n'Bucknell's research is impressive and her judgements astute' GUARDIAN\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn engrossing new biography of the man whose writings about 1930s Berlin made him famous. From the editor of Isherwood’s diaries and letters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eChristopher Isherwood rejected the life he was born to and set out to make a different one. Heir to an English estate, he flunked out of university, moved to Berlin, was driven through Europe by the Nazis, and circled the globe before settling in Hollywood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere he adopted a new religion and continued to form the friendships – including an astounding number of romantic and sexual ones – through which he discovered himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUsing a wealth of unpublished material, Christopher Isherwood Inside Out tells how the traumas of his father’s death in World War I and his failure to protect his German lover from the Nazis were healed by his life as a monk in the 1940s, enabling him to commit unflinchingly to a sexually open relationship in the 1950s, and to come out as a ‘grand old man’ of the gay rights movement in the 1970s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith this new biography, enriched by unlimited access to Isherwood’s partner Don Bachardy, Katherine Bucknell shows how Christopher Isherwood achieved a uniquely inspiring personal life. He effected lasting change in our culture, through both his literary works and the way he lived.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e‘The best biography I’ve ever read . . . Every page is full of surprises’ EDMUND WHITE\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'It’s hard to imagine a better qualified candidate for this task than Katherine Bucknell' THE TIMES\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A fast-paced story of an extraordinary life and a broadly illuminating history of vast cultural changes’ EDWARD MENDELSON\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT-BOOK","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":54000237019504,"sku":"978-0701186388","price":9.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":54000237052272,"sku":"978-0701186388","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1009\/8543\/8576\/files\/ebook_2690_cd272cb2b6.jpg?v=1783521305","url":"https:\/\/antbook.store\/de\/products\/christopher-isherwood-inside-out","provider":"ANTBOOK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}