All The Conspirators

Author: Christopher Isherwood

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  • : $20.00 AUD
  • : 9780099561064
  • : Vintage
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  • : April 2012
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 14mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 12.95
  • : July 2012
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Barcode 9780099561064
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Description

The scene is 1920s Kensington and Philip and Joan are testing the very limits of politeness and restraint as they fight to expunge the oppression of their mother - by whatever means necessary. In his first novel, Christopher Isherwood paints an intimate portrait of the battle between old and young as he explores the destruction of a son by a domineering parent.

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Christopher Isherwood's debut novel which features the first generation of Angry Young Men

Author description

Christopher Isherwood was born in 1904. He began to write at university and later moved to Berlin, where he gave English lessons to support himself. He witnessed first hand the rise to power of Hitler and the Nazi party in Germany and some of his best works, such as Mr. Norris Changes Trains and Goodbye to Berlin, draw on these experiences. He created the character of Sally Bowles, later made famous as the heroine of the musical Cabaret. Isherwood travelled with W.H Auden to China in the late 1930s before going with him to America in 1939. He died on 4 January 1986. His novel A Single Man was recently made into an award-winning film by Tom Ford, starring Colin Firth and Julianne Moore.