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"The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best."
- Will Rogers
(1879 - 1935)
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 Format: Paperback, 1104 pages
Edition: REPRINT
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 0061180181
Release Date: Jan 8, 1998
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In 1939 Christopher Isherwood and W. H. Auden emigrated together to the United States. These diaries, covering the period up to 1960, describe Isherwood's search for a new life in California, where he eventually settled.
The diaries tell how Isherwood became a disciple of the Hindu monk Swami Prabhavananda; about his pacifism during World War II; about his work as a screenwriter in Hollywood and his friendships with such gifted artists and intellectuals as Garbo, Chaplin, Thomas Mann, Bertolt Brecht, Stravinsky, Aldous Huxley, Gielgud, Olivier, Richard Burton, and Charles Laughton, many of whom were émigrés like himself.
Throughout this period, Isherwood continued to write novels and sustain his literary friendship with E. M. Forster, Somerset Maugham, Gore Vidal, Tennessee Williams, and others. He turned to his diary several times a week to record jokes and gossip, observations about his adopted country, philosophy and mystical insights. In spare, luminous prose, he also revealed his most intimate and passionate relationships, particularly with Bill Caskey and later with the very young Don Bachardy.
Author Biography: Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986) was the author of more than 20 books. His best-known work, Goodbye to Berlin, was developed into the musical Cabaret, which later won eight Academy Awards in the film version starring Liza Minnelli and Joel Gray.
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"This volume of diaries requires a reader to spend the better part of the week in Isherwood's company. But he proves himself sufficiently complex and sympathetic that it becomes the better part of a week indeed." —Thomas Mallon
"Intimate and compulsively readable." —Alfred Corn
"It is fitting in a way that Isherwood's diaries should turn out to be such a major achievement: This writer found the perfect form to preserve in amber his particular genius and to show both his life as a writer and the life of his mind...He is quite simply a marvelous diarist, one of the very best in a long tradition of English diarists starting with Samuel Pepys." —Martin Rubin
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