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Christopher Isherwood
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| Title | : | A Single Man |
| Author | : | Christopher Isherwood |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 192 pages |
| Published | : | March 20th 2001 by Univ Of Minnesota Press (first published 1964) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. LGBT. Classics. GLBT. Queer. Gay |
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"When A Single Man was originally published, it shocked many by its frank, sympathetic, and moving portrayal of a gay man in midlife. George, the protagonist, is adjusting to life on his own after the sudden death of his partner, determined to persist in the routines of his daily life. An Englishman and a professor living in suburban Southern California, he is an outsider in every way, and his internal reflections and interactions with others reveal a man who loves being alive despite everyday injustices and loneliness. Wry, suddenly manic, constantly funny, surprisingly sad, this novel catches the true textures of life itself."--BOOK JACKET.Particularize Books Supposing A Single Man
| Original Title: | A Single Man |
| ISBN: | 0816638624 (ISBN13: 9780816638628) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | George Falconer, Kenny Potter, Charley, Jim |
| Setting: | Los Angeles, California,1962(United States) |
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I aspire. It's listed as being 192 pages long, but I swear it's because the edition I read had fifty words a page with three inch margins an every side.It's so economical it is more or less mind-blowing.If my desire to express whimsy came from Terry Pratchett and P.G. Wodehouse, and my inclination to be daring and irreverent came from David Foster Wallace and Stephen KingIf my unruly imagination came from Bill Watterson, and my eye for alienation from Susan CooperIf my lust for scale came fromA Single Man is a day in the life (quaint naturalist device, that) of a middle-aged Englishman and English professor grieving in a numbed, autopilot kinda way after the recent death of his partner. I remember Don Bachardy saying in the film Chris and Don: A Love Story that Isherwood wrote this novel during one of their trial separations; the intensity of Georges sense of loss was therefore underwritten by Isherwoods own dreadful imagination of life without Don. I loved Georges morning, and his
Oh, Colin Firth, you are just perfect in every (single) way, and Julianne Moore, can I become you? Let me get drunk with you guys and dance to 'Green Onions' with you. What a name for a song, right? And I don't even dance.Is that Don Draper on the phone? Ask to speak to Betty! And Mary's husband, long before Downton Abbey, with Nicholas Hoult and that sweater. Where do I get one? A Nicholas Hoult, and a sweater. Let's not forget the scene with John Kortajarena and Janet Leigh--absolute
Well. I picked this up earlier to move into the 'reading-next' pile and, on the way to the pile, thought to myself, let's read the first page and see what it's like. And now I've finished reading it the same day.As I make my way through the top 100 list I am looking for the books I call 'masterpieces', which is my favourite word when referring to literature, as it holds so much weight, honour and power. Books are masterpieces for different reasons and this, I would have to say, is a masterpiece.
A few times in my life Ive had moments of absolute clarity. When for a few brief seconds the silence drowns out the noise and I can feel rather than think, and things seem so sharp and the world seems so fresh. Its as though it had all just come into existence.I can never make these moments last. I cling to them, but like everything, they fade. I have lived my life on these moments. They pull me back to the present, and I realize that everything is exactly the way it was meant to be. We all make
This is a gem of a book. The style of writing is quite lyrical in a sense and beautiful itself, let alone having a great story line!I finished it quickly and highly recommend the Audiobook version. Narration is stunning & adds a lot to it in my opinion!
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