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The Memorial : Portrait of a Family by Isherwood, Christopher is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Memorial : Portrait of a Family about?
<p>With The Memorial, Christopher Isherwood began his lifelong work of rewriting his own experiences into witty yet almost forensic portraits of modern society. Set in the aftermath of World War I, The Memorial portrays the dissolution of a tradition-bound English family. Cambridge student Eric Vernon finds himself torn between his desire to emulate his heroic father, who led a life of quiet sacrifice before dying in the war, and his envy for his father's great friend Edward Blake, who survived the war only to throw himself into gay life in Berlin and the pursuit of meaningless relationships.</p>
Who reads The Memorial : Portrait of a Family?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Isherwood, Christopher
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Published
- 1999
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780816633692
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities
- Rating
- 3.38 / 5 (152 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14