{"product_id":"christopher-isherwood-a-single-man-1964-signed","title":"Christopher Isherwood — A Single Man (1964), signed","description":"\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e Methuen, London, 1964\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eEdition:\u003c\/strong\u003e First edition (UK), first printing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e Cloth, dust jacket\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e Octavo\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/strong\u003e English\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSignature:\u003c\/strong\u003e Signed by Isherwood on the title page; previous owner's signature on endpaper.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Fine in a near fine dust jacket; small chip to top back point; slight toning.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eA single day in the life of George, an Englishman teaching literature at a Los Angeles college, some months after his partner Jim has been killed in a car crash. Isherwood, writing in his late fifties in Santa Monica, moves between George's body (waking, shaving, teaching, swimming, drinking) and his consciousness, in a single-day form that recalls Mrs Dalloway, and treats a gay man's grief simply as grief.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIsherwood thought it his best novel, and it is the book in which the author of Goodbye to Berlin found his late voice. George's classroom lecture on minorities, and on the fear that underlies prejudice, is one of the most quoted passages in gay fiction. Tom Ford's 2009 film brought it to a new audience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe London first edition, published by Methuen in the same year as the American.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Christopher Isherwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67894717514045,"sku":"DI-046","price":2100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1024\/2857\/4013\/files\/unnamed_09ba105b-5080-4920-a613-793a814e60e6.jpg?v=1793689189","url":"https:\/\/docksideinterview.com\/products\/christopher-isherwood-a-single-man-1964-signed","provider":"Dockside Interview","version":"1.0","type":"link"}