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Title: CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD DIARIES VOLUME 1
By: Christopher Isherwood
Format: Paperback

List price: £9.99


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ISBN 10: 0749398477
ISBN 13: 9780749398477
Publisher: VINTAGE PUBLISHING
Pub. date: 30 October, 1997
Pages: 1108
Description: This text contains accounts of the author's conversion to hindu, his pacifism during World War II, his time as a screenwriter in Hollywood, and his friendships with the likes of Garbo, Chaplin, Brecht, Huxley, Stravinsky, Geilgud, Olivier and Burton.
Synopsis: In 1939 Christopher Isherwood and W.H. Auden emigrated together to the United States. In spare, luminous prose, these diaries describe Isherwood's search for a new life in California; his work as a screenwriter in Hollywood, his pacifism during World War II and his friendships with such gifted artists and intellectuals as Garbo, Charles Chaplin, Thomas Mann, Charles Laughton and Aldous Huxley.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Minerva
Returns: Returnable
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