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<p>This second volume of Christopher Isherwood's remarkable diaries opens on his fifty-sixth birthday, as the fifties give way to the decade of social and sexual revolution. Isherwood takes the reader from the bohemian sunshine of Southern California to a London finally swinging free of post-war gloom, to the racy cosmopolitanism of New York and to the raw Australian outback. He charts his ongoing quest for spiritual certainty under the guidance of his Hindu guru, and he reveals in reckless detail the emotional drama of his love for the American painter Don Bachardy, thirty years his junior and struggling to establish his own artistic identity. <p>The diaries are crammed with wicked gossip and probing psychological insights about the cultural icons of the time&mdash;Francis Bacon, Richard Burton, Leslie Caron, Marianne Faithfull, David Hockney, Mick Jagger, Hope Lange, W. Somerset Maugham, John Osborne, Vanessa Redgrave, Tony Richardson, David O. Selznick, Igor Stravinsky, Gore Vidal, and many others. But the diaries are most revealing about Isherwood himself&mdash;his fiction (including <i>A Single Man</i> and <i>Down There on a Visit</i>), his film writing, his college teaching,

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Author

Isherwood, Christopher

Publisher

Harper Collins, Inc.

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780061185007

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Memoir, Biography