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A Single Man
Reader Score
84%
84% of readers
recommend this book
When Christopher Isherwood's A Single Man first appeared, it shocked many with its frank, sympathetic, and moving portrayal of a gay man in maturity. Isherwood's favorite of his own novels, it now stands as a classic lyric meditation on life as an outsider.
Welcome to sunny suburban 1960s Southern California. George is a gay middle-aged English professor, adjusting to solitude after the tragic death of his young partner. He is determined to persist in the routines of his former life. A Single Man follows him over the course of an ordinary twenty-four hours. Behind his British reserve, tides of grief, rage, and loneliness surge--but what is revealed is a man who loves being alive despite all the everyday injustices.
Book Details
- Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Publish Date: Jun 11st, 2013
- Pages: 192
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.21in - 5.48in - 0.52in - 0.37lb
- EAN: 9780374533878
- Categories: • LGBTQ+ - Gay• Literary• LGBTQ+ - Lesbian
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What people are saying
writer (matt.sitman at gmail dot com) // au courant lefty podcaster (@KnowYrEnemyPod with @samadlerbell) // editorial board @dissentmag
Fortified by some whiskey, I just told someone that Christopher Isherwood's A Single Man is best understood as a "religious novel"—definitively shaped by his practice of Vedanta—&, therefore, that one can say the greatest gay novel of the 20th century was a religious work of art
"This 1964 novel is deceptively simple, brooding, and powerful... Inhabiting a suddenly colorless world, devoid of hope, Isherwood draws a pitch-perfect portrait of grief."
The Christopher Isherwood Foundation aims to preserve the creative legacy of the Anglo-American writer Christopher Isherwood & the American painter Don Bachardy
A SINGLE MAN, the opera! The Christopher Isherwood Foundation is delighted to support Polish composer Wojciech Stępień and American librettist Amanda Hollander now starting work on a musical reimagining of Isherwood's classic novel. https://t.co/h8HxChY5aC
Praise for this book
"An absolutely devastating, unnerving, brilliant book." --Stephen Spender
"Isherwood's A Single Man, published in 1964, is one of the first and best novels of the modern gay liberation movement." --Edmund White
"A testimony to Isherwood's undiminished brilliance as a novelist." --Anthony Burgess
What people are saying
writer (matt.sitman at gmail dot com) // au courant lefty podcaster (@KnowYrEnemyPod with @samadlerbell) // editorial board @dissentmag
Fortified by some whiskey, I just told someone that Christopher Isherwood's A Single Man is best understood as a "religious novel"—definitively shaped by his practice of Vedanta—&, therefore, that one can say the greatest gay novel of the 20th century was a religious work of art
"This 1964 novel is deceptively simple, brooding, and powerful... Inhabiting a suddenly colorless world, devoid of hope, Isherwood draws a pitch-perfect portrait of grief."