Lions and Shadows: An Education in the Twenties (FSG Classics) - Softcover

Isherwood, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0374535302 ISBN 13: 9780374535308

Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015

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"In Lions and Shadows it's impossible to determine where truth ends and fiction begins--impossible and unnecessary because the very ambiguity makes the charm of the book." --Richard Plant, The New York Times

"That young man holds the future of the English novel in his hands." --W. Somerset Maugham, after reading Lions and Shadows

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Lions and Shadows blends autobiography and fiction to describe the true education of a writer evolving from precocious schoolboy to dropoutatlarge in London’s bohemia of the 1920s. Forced to withdraw from Cambridge University, “Christopher Isherwood” works as a tutor to the privileged, serves as the secretary to a busy string quartet, ill-fatedly attends medical school. Licensed by names he invents, he works up extravagant portraits of his brilliant contemporaries W. H. Auden, Edward Upward, and Stephen Spender, whose intimate friendships and cult of rebellion changed the literary identity of England in the 1930s.

Although the story is Isherwood’s own life story, carrying him up to the age of twenty-five, he gives free rein to his remarkable powers of dramatization, improving on the facts here and there, to make a highly entertaining, sometimes hilarious book.

“Read it as a novel,” says Isherwood. There is no difficulty taking his advice. But his characters were real people, and when Lions and Shadows was first published, in 1938, it transformed their lives into legend.

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• Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0374535302
• ISBN 13: 9780374535308
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320